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HR 1948 114th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Child care and development Mental health Veterans' medical care

Veterans' Access to Child Care Act

Introduced: April 22, 2015 Introduced by: Brownley, Julia Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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May 11, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 22, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Apr 22, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Veterans' Access to Child Care Act

Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide child care assistance to an eligible veteran for any period that the veteran: (1) receives covered health care services at a VA facility, and (2) is required to travel to and return from such facility for the receipt of such services.

Defines: (1) "covered health care services" to mean regular mental health care services, intensive mental health care services, or such other intensive health care services to which the VA determines that provision of child care assistance would improve the veteran's access; and (2) "eligible veteran" as a veteran who is the primary caretaker of a child and who is receiving covered health care services from the VA or who is in need of, and who would receive, such services from the VA but for lack of child care.

Includes among child care assistance to be provided under this Act:

  • a stipend for the payment of the full cost of child care offered by a licensed child care center, which shall be modeled after the VA's Child Care Subsidy Program;
  • direct provision of child care at an on-site VA facility;
  • a payment made directly to a private child care agency; and
  • collaboration with a facility or program of another federal department or agency.
What's happening now May 11, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 11
All 11 Democratic 11
D
DeSaulnier, Mark
California · Mar 14, 2016
 D
Luján, Ben Ray
New Mexico · Mar 14, 2016
 D
Chu, Judy
California · Sep 30, 2015
 D
Clark, Katherine M.
Massachusetts · Jul 29, 2015
 D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Jun 16, 2015
 D
Welch, Peter
Vermont · Jun 2, 2015
 D
Peters, Scott H.
California · Jun 1, 2015
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · May 13, 2015
 D
Ruiz, Raul
California · Apr 22, 2015
 D
Takano, Mark
California · Apr 22, 2015
 D
Titus, Dina
Nevada · Apr 22, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1948: Veterans' Access to Child Care Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1948/
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"H.R. 1948: Veterans' Access to Child Care Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1948/.
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