[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1973 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1973

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to submit to the 
           Congress a report on State child care regulations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2021

  Mrs. Hinson (for herself, Mr. Jacobs of New York, Mr. Stivers, Mr. 
Feenstra, Mr. Armstrong, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Norman, and Mrs. 
Miller-Meeks) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to submit to the 
           Congress a report on State child care regulations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Child Care Accessibility Report and 
Evaluation Act of 2021'' or the ``Child CARE Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. REPORT.

    Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the 
Administration for Children and Families, shall submit to the Congress 
a report that contains the following information:
            (1) The list of child care regulations in each State by 
        State.
            (2) Whether each regulation is best described as related 
        to--
                    (A) child safety,
                    (B) quality of child care,
                    (C) both child safety and quality of care, or
                    (D) neither.
            (3) An analysis of any effect of State regulations 
        categorized as ``quality of child care'' regulations on the 
        cost of child care and the supply of child care.
            (4) The average cost of child care in each State.
            (5) The number of child care providers per 100,000 children 
        in each State, disaggregated by type (home-based or center-
        based).
            (6) A ranking of States by the number of quality 
        regulations.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``State'' means any of the 
several States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico.
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