Child Care for Working Families Act
Latest action · Sep 14, 2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedSep 14, 2017
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Child Care for Working Families Act
This bill provides additional grant funding for child care and preschool programs. It also modifies various requirements for the programs, including policies regarding compensation and training for employees.
Cosponsors 33
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 14, 2017 to Jul 23, 2018; 26 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Al Franken | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-CT | Christopher Murphy | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-NJ | Cory A. Booker | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-MA | Elizabeth Warren | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-OR | Jeff Merkley | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-CA | Kamala D. Harris | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-NH | Margaret Wood Hassan | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-NM | Martin Heinrich | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-HI | Mazie K. Hirono | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-IL | Tammy Duckworth | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-NM | Tom Udall | Original | Sep 14, 2017 |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Sep 18, 2017 | |
| D-DE | Christopher A. Coons | Oct 16, 2017 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Nov 29, 2017 | |
| D-MN | Tina Smith | Feb 8, 2018 | |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Mar 8, 2018 | |
| D-NV | Catherine Cortez Masto | May 16, 2018 | |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Jul 23, 2018 |
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 Sep 14, 2017 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 14, 2017Introduced in Senate
- Sep 14, 2017Read 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 S675 | Tammy Duckworth D-IL | Feb 7, 2018 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 568 | Child Care for Working Families Act | Reintroduced Bill | Feb 26, 2019 |
| HR 3773 | Child Care for Working Families Act | Identical bill | Sep 14, 2017 |
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 and the Head Start Act to promote child care and early learning, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Child Care for Working Families Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Academic performance and assessments
- Adoption and foster care
- Appropriations
- Child care and development
- Child health
- Crime prevention
- Disability and paralysis
- Domestic violence and child abuse
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Education programs funding
- Family services
- Health programs administration and funding
- Higher education
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
- Preschool education
- Student aid and college costs
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 14, 2017Introduced 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.
