[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2777 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2777

 To increase child care options for working families and support child 
                            care providers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 13, 2023

   Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Hirono, Mr. 
  Whitehouse, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
   Fetterman, Ms. Smith, Mr. Reed, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. 
  Klobuchar, Mr. Welch, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
Booker, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Casey, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Padilla, 
   Mr. King, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Lujan, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Schumer, Ms. 
  Stabenow, Mr. Brown, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Warnock, and Mr. Durbin) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
          Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To increase child care options for working families and support child 
                            care providers.

    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 Stabilization Act''.

SEC. 2. CHILD CARE STABILIZATION GRANTS.

    (a) Purposes.--The purposes of this section are to make child care 
services more accessible for families and to support the stability and 
quality of child care providers by--
            (1) promoting the stability of the child care sector by 
        providing a source of stable funding to eligible child care 
        providers to help offset their operating expenses;
            (2) supporting sustained and increased wages for early 
        childhood educators or other staff of eligible child care 
        providers, in order to stabilize and grow the child care 
        workforce without increasing costs for families;
            (3) expanding the supply and capacity of eligible child 
        care providers to ensure working families have a range of high-
        quality, affordable child care options, in a variety of 
        settings, that meet their unique needs; and
            (4) supporting access to child care services for 
        communities facing a particular shortage of child care options, 
        including child care services for infants and toddlers, child 
        care services during nontraditional or extended hours, child 
        care services in rural communities, and inclusive child care 
        services for children with disabilities.
    (b) Appropriation.--In addition to amounts otherwise available, 
there is appropriated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to carry 
out the child care stabilization program established in section 2202 
(other than subsection (d)(2)(E) of that section) of the American 
Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (42 U.S.C. 9858 note) $16,000,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for each of fiscal years 2024 through 
2028.
    (c) Administration and Technical Assistance.--The Secretary of 
Health and Human Services may reserve not more than 1 percent of the 
funding appropriated under subsection (b) for the costs of providing 
technical assistance, and for the administrative costs, to carry out 
that section 2202.
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