2002 ACCESS Act
Latest action · Sep 4, 2002 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
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.
- IntroducedJul 18, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Federal Employees Child Care Act - Directs the Administrator of General Services to: (1) establish health, safety, and facility standards and compliance requirements for child care in executive branch facilities; (2) issue regulations requiring a child care facility to comply with standards of a child care accreditation entity; and (3) establish an interagency council to facilitate cooperation and sharing of best practices. Prescribes accreditation requirements for child care services in the House of Representatives, the Library of Congress, the Senate, and the U.S. Courts.
Revises the criteria for children permitted child care and related services in Federal buildings, extending eligibility to children of Federal employees or on-site Federal contractors, or dependent children who live with such employees or contractors. Authorizes agreements, where necessary, with non-Federal, licensed, and accredited child care facilities, or planned facilities that will become licensed and accredited.
Permits a Federal agency to conduct a pilot project to test innovative approaches to providing more cost-effective alternative forms of child care assistance for Federal employees.
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award competitive grants to assist eligible intermediaries to provide technical and financial assistance to eligible recipients to pay the Federal matching share of costs of acquisition, construction, or improvement of center-based or home-based child care facilities or equipment, or for the improvement of related management and business practices.
Book Stamp Act - Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish a grant program (based on certain State allocations under CCDBGA) to promote child literacy and improve children's access to books at home and in early learning and other child care programs, by making books available through such programs.
Early Care and Education Act - Directs the Secretaries of Education and of HHS to: (1) allot incentive grants to States to develop or enhance high-quality systems of early child care and early education; (2) award bonus grants to States for demonstrated improvement in such care and education; and (3) establish an information clearinghouse.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 18, 2002 to Sep 25, 2002; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jul 18, 2002 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Jul 18, 2002 |
| R-VT | James M. Jeffords | Original | Jul 18, 2002 |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Original | Jul 18, 2002 |
| D-NC | John Edwards | Original | Jul 18, 2002 |
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Original | Jul 18, 2002 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Jul 18, 2002 |
| D-GA | Max Cleland | Sep 5, 2002 | |
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Sep 25, 2002 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Jul 18, 2002Markup Sep 4, 2002 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 4, 2002Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Jul 18, 2002Introduced in Senate
- Jul 18, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7042-7043)
- Jul 18, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S7042Summaries S7043 | Christopher J. Dodd D-CT | Jul 18, 2002 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Sep 11, 2002S. 2758, Access to High Quality Child Care Act<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on September 4, 2002</p>
- Sep 11, 2002S. 2758, Access to High Quality Child Care ActCost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on September 4, 2002
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill entitled "The Child Care and Development Block Grant Amendments Act".
- Short Titles as Introduced
- 2002 ACCESS Act
- Access to High Quality Child Care Act
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Early Care and Education Act
- Federal Employees Child Care Act
- Book Stamp Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
- Accreditation (Education)
- Administrative procedure
- Adult day care
- Agriculture and Food
- Aid to dependent children
- Arts, Culture, Religion
- Auditing
- Authorization
- Books
- Career education
- Caregivers
- Cash welfare block grants
- Child care block grants
- Child care workers
- Child development
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Child safety
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional agencies
- Congressional employees
- Congressional office buildings
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Cost effectiveness
- Curricula
- Data banks
- Day care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disabled
- Disabled children
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of disabled students
- Education of disadvantaged children
- Educational accountability
- Educational planning
- Educational research
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee training
- Environmental Protection
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal aid to day care centers
- Federal aid to higher education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal employees
- Federal installations
- Federal libraries
- Federal office buildings
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food relief
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Group homes for children
- Hawaiians
- Health
- Higher education
- Indian children
- Infants
- Judicial officers
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Lead poisoning
- Legislation
- Library of Congress
- Licenses
- Literacy programs
- Minorities
- Parent and child
- Parents
- Postage stamps
- Postal rates and revenues
- Preschool education
- Public-private partnerships
- Recruiting of employees
- Revolving funds
- School-age child care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Special education
- Surveys
- Teacher education
- Telephone
- Welfare eligibility
- WIC program
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 18, 2002Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
