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Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025

Introduced: January 21, 2025 Introduced by: Klobuchar, Amy Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov

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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.

What's happening now January 21, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Duckworth, Tammy

Illinois · Feb 11, 2025

Gillibrand, Kirsten E.

New York · Jan 21, 2025

King, Angus S., Jr.

Maine · Jan 21, 2025

Merkley, Jeff

Oregon · Jan 21, 2025

Shaheen, Jeanne

New Hampshire · Jan 21, 2025

Sullivan, Dan

Alaska · Jan 21, 2025

Whitehouse, Sheldon

Rhode Island · Jan 21, 2025

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 169: Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-169/

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"S. 169: Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-169/.

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S. 169, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-169/.

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