Child Care Quality Incentive Act of 2005
Latest action · Mar 3, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2038-2039)
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.
- IntroducedMar 3, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Child Care Quality Incentive Act of 2005 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to revise requirements relating to child care payment rates.
Requires States to conduct market rate surveys, at least once every two years, to determine their child care payment rates under the block grant program, including cost-of-living adjustments and consideration of variations in localities, children's ages, and types of services.
Establishes a program of incentive grants to States and Indian tribes to improve the quality of, and access to, child care by increasing child care payment rates. Makes separate appropriations for such incentive grants in specified amounts for FY 2006 through FY 2010 (prohibiting use of block grant funds for such incentive grants).
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make an annual incentive grant payment to an eligible State only if the State has conducted a statistically valid survey of the market rates for child care services in the State within the two years before it submits an application containing information on such survey and the State's plans to increase its child care payment rates. Requires an eligible State that receives such a grant to make priority use of its funds to increase significantly (up to the 100th percentile of the market rate survey) the rate of reimbursement to providers for subsidized child care (with any remaining funds to be used to improve the quality of child care services). Requires a State matching contribution of at least 20 percent of incentive grant program activity costs.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 3, 2005 to May 24, 2005; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Original | Mar 3, 2005 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Mar 3, 2005 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Mar 3, 2005 |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Apr 5, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | May 24, 2005 |
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 Mar 4, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Mar 3, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2037-2038)
- Mar 3, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2038-2039)
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.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to provide incentive grants to improve the quality of child care.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Child Care Quality Incentive Act of 2005
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
- Appropriations
- Authorization
- Block grants
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Day care
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Families
- Federal aid to Indians
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Indian children
- Internet
- Minorities
- Poor children
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Surveys
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2005Introduced in Senate
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