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HR 2703 114th Congress House

Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2015

Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.

Introduced: June 9, 2015 See on congress.gov
Taxation Child care and developmentEmployee benefits and pensionsIncome tax creditsIncome tax exclusionTeaching, teachers, curricula
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Jun 9, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jun 9, 2015
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 Latest action June 9, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2015

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rates and maximum allowable amount of the tax credit for employer-provided child care facilities; (2) increase the eligibility threshold amount and rate of the household and dependent care tax credit and make such credit refundable; (3) allow a new $2,000 tax credit for child care providers who hold a bachelor's degree in early childhood education, child care, or a related degree and who provide at least 1,200 hours of child care services in a taxable year; and (4) increase the tax exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • S 446 Related bill Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2015
  • HR 2140 Reintroduced Bill Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2703: Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2703/
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"H.R. 2703: Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2703/.
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H.R. 2703, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2703/.
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