Child Development and Family Employment Act of 2002
Latest action · Apr 5, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 19, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Revises State plan requirements to include preservice training for child care providers.
Requires payment rates to: (1) ensure access to comparable quality and types of services; (2) be adjusted to reflect increases in cost of living, as determined by market surveys at least every two years; and (3) reflect cost variations for different ages of children and different types of care.
Revises requirements for activities to improve child care quality services. Earmarks funds for: (1) services for children from birth through three years of age; and (2) a statewide system of local child care resource and referral organizations carrying out certain functions, including training, to assist parents and providers.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make incentive grants to States to increase reimbursement rates for child care providers.
Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) a national training and technical assistance center specializing in infant and toddler care and their families; and (2) a national data system on supply, demand, and quality of child care, early education, and non-school hours programs.
Includes foster children among those who may be eligible for CCDBGA services if other conditions are met.
Focus On Committed and Underpaid Staff for Children's Sake Act - FOCUS Act - Establishes: (1) the Child Care Provider Retention and Development Grant Program; and (2) the Child Care Provider Scholarship Program.
Cosponsors 73
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 19, 2001 to Jun 13, 2002; 17 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-HI | Neil Abercrombie | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Original | Dec 19, 2001 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Dec 19, 2001 |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Apr 5, 2002 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Dec 19, 2001 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 5, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Dec 20, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2323-2324)
- Dec 20, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2344)
- Dec 19, 2001Introduced in House
- Dec 19, 2001Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E2344 | George Miller D-CA | Dec 20, 2001 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to provide access to early care and education so that families can work and children can receive quality custodial care.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Child Development and Family Employment Act of 2002
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Focus On Committed and Underpaid Staff for Children's Sake Act
- FOCUS Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
- Agriculture and Food
- Aid to dependent children
- Authorization
- Cash welfare block grants
- Child care block grants
- Child care workers
- Child development
- Child safety
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Cost of living adjustments
- Data banks
- Demography
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Depressed areas
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of disadvantaged children
- Educational planning
- Educational statistics
- Elementary and secondary education
- Families
- Federal aid to day care centers
- Federal aid to higher education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Foster home care
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government statistics
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Indian children
- Indian education
- Infants
- Labor and Employment
- Labor turnover
- Licenses
- Minorities
- Poor children
- Preschool education
- Quality of care
- Recruiting of employees
- Salaries
- Scholarships
- School lunch program
- School-age child care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Surveys
- Teacher education
- Welfare eligibility
- Welfare recipients
- Welfare-to-work
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 19, 2001Introduced in House
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