Child Care for Working Families Act
Latest action · Feb 26, 2019 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.
- IntroducedFeb 26, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Child Care for Working Families Act
This bill 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.
Cosponsors 36
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 26, 2019 to Dec 18, 2020; 34 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-HI | Brian Schatz | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NV | Catherine Cortez Masto | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-DE | Christopher A. Coons | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-CT | Christopher Murphy | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NJ | Cory A. Booker | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-MA | Elizabeth Warren | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-MI | Gary C. Peters | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NV | Jacky Rosen | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-OR | Jeff Merkley | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-CA | Kamala D. Harris | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NH | Margaret Wood Hassan | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-HI | Mazie K. Hirono | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-IL | Tammy Duckworth | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-MN | Tina Smith | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NM | Tom Udall | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NM | Martin Heinrich | Jul 21, 2020 | |
| D-CO | Michael F. Bennet | Dec 18, 2020 |
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 Feb 26, 2019 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 26, 2019Introduced in Senate
- Feb 26, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
In the Congressional Record 2
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 S2031–S2033 | Robert P. Casey Jr. D-PA | Mar 27, 2019 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1494 | Mazie K. Hirono D-HI | Feb 26, 2019 |
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.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 116-5 | THE CLEAN WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND: HOW FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT CAN HELP COMMUNITIES MODERNIZE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE AND ADDRESS AFFORDABILITY CHALLENGES128 pages | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Mar 7, 2019 |
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1364 | Child Care for Working Families Act | Related bill | Feb 26, 2019 |
| S 1806 | Child Care for Working Families Act | Reintroduction of | Sep 14, 2017 |
| HR 8004 | To amend the Head Start Act to extend the duration of grants under such Act, and for other purposes. | Related bill | Aug 11, 2020 |
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 Title(s) 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.
- Feb 26, 2019Introduced 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.
