US Congress Senate Bill 568 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 36-1)
Status: Introduced on February 26 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Provides funds and otherwise revises certain child care and early learning programs for low- to moderate-income families. Specifically, the bill provides funds for the Child Care and Development Block Grant program and reestablishes it as a child care and development assistance program. It also allocates program funds for states to provide services and supports to infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities. Further, it revises the program to require each state to, among other things create a tiered and transparent system for measuring the quality of child care providers, which must include evidence-based standards and payment rates that are based on a certain cost estimation model; assure that copayments are based on a sliding scale and that no family receiving assistance pays more than 7% of their household income on child care; and use quality child care amounts for certain activities, such as improving the supply of child care providers who provide care to infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities (e.g., professional development). It also provides funds and establishes grants for states to create preschool programs for low- to moderate-income children between the ages of three and five years. Finally, the Department of Health and Human Services must make grants to Head Start agencies to (1) provide children with access to full-school-year and full-school-day services, (2) provide access to additional service hours for migrant and seasonal agencies, or (3) enhance the quality of existing services.

Child Care for Working Families Act

Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]
Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-26	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB1364 (Related) 2019-02-26 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
HB8004 (Related) 2020-08-11 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/568/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s568/BILLS-116s568is.pdf