Caring for Children Act
Official title: A bill to increase the supply of quality child care.
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Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Directs the Secretary to award grants to eligible entities to develop: (1) distance learning child care training technology infrastructures; and (2) model technology-based training courses for child care providers and child care workers, to be provided through distance learning programs made available through the infrastructure. Requires, to the maximum extent possible, that such grants be awarded in those regions of the United States with the fewest training opportunities for child care providers.
Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration program of competitive grants to States to help them provide funds to encourage the establishment and operation of small business employer-operated child care programs. Requires a State to give priority for such assistance to applicants that desire to form a consortium to provide child care in a geographic area within the State where such care is not generally available or accessible, and allows such consortia to include businesses, nonprofit agencies or organizations, local governments, or other appropriate entities.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF
- Reference Change Senate Formatted Text PDF
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 389: Caring for Children Act. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-389/
"S. 389: Caring for Children Act." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-389/.
S. 389, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-389/.
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