Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2021
Summary
Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2021 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.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jan 28, 2021
Last action Jan 28, 2021
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Committee
1
Jan 28, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
upper
Jan 28, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 9 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Amy Klobuchar
DDemocratic
Co
Angus S. King, Jr.
IIndependent
Co
Dan Sullivan
RRepublican
Co
Jeanne Shaheen
DDemocratic
Co
Joni Ernst
RRepublican
Co
Kyrsten Sinema
IIndependent
Co
Martin Heinrich
DDemocratic
Co
Sheldon Whitehouse
DDemocratic
Co
Shelley Moore Capito
RRepublican
Co
Steve Daines
RRepublican
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