Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025
Latest action · Jan 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
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.
- IntroducedJan 21, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide states and tribal entities with grants to increase access to licensed child care services.
The grants may be used to develop and expand the child care workforce or child care facilities in locations with insufficient available child care. Specifically, grants cover 50% of the cost of programs to support the education and training of caregivers or projects to build, expand, or renovate child care facilities in these areas.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 21, 2025 to Jan 30, 2026; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Original | Jan 21, 2025 |
| D-MD | Sarah Elfreth | Feb 25, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Thomas R. Suozzi | Jan 30, 2026 |
Committees 1
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 Jan 21, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 21, 2025Introduced in House
- Jan 21, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 12, January 21, 2025, page H258.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 169 | Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025 | Identical bill | Jan 21, 2025 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To assist States in carrying out projects to expand the child care workforce and child care facilities in the States, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 21, 2025Introduced in House
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.
