This bill would change how child care assistance works under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990. It adds a list of kinds of educational and training programs so that parents enrolled in those programs count as engaged in a "parental activity" that can make them eligible for child care help. The list includes programs accredited by colleges or by Department of Education–recognized agencies, programs registered with the Department of Labor or a State labor agency, and programs approved by a State or State board of nursing or health when needed for nursing assistant licensing or certification. The bill also authorizes additional funding of $850,000,000 for each fiscal year 2027 through 2031 to carry out the Act.
If this bill becomes law, parents who are students or trainees in the listed programs would be clearly eligible for child care assistance under the federal child care grant program. That could affect parenting students in college, students in programs recognized by the Department of Education, people in job training registered with labor departments, and people in nursing assistant training that state agencies approve. The bill does not itself change how states run their programs beyond the eligibility clarification.
The bill authorizes $850,000,000 in additional appropriations for each of fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, and 2031 to carry out the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act. These amounts are "in addition to amounts otherwise authorized" under the existing law. No publicly available information on total long-term costs, budget offsets, or how the new funds would be allocated beyond this authorization.
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