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116th Congress
Senate
Families
Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
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Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2019
Introduced: February 28, 2019
Introduced by:
Klobuchar, Amy
Democratic
· Minnesota
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To President
Became law
Feb 28, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Feb 28, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2019
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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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