[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2425 Introduced in House (IH)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2425
To protect babies and young children in childcare settings by
strengthening transparency and safety requirements.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 27, 2025
Mr. Fallon (for himself, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Gooden, and Mr.
Nehls) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and Workforce
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To protect babies and young children in childcare settings by
strengthening transparency and safety requirements.
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 ``Kairo Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act:
(1) The term ``certain child care provider'' means a
center-based child care provider, a family child care provider,
a sectarian child care provider, or other provider of child
care services for compensation that receives any amount of
Federal funding towards providing child care or early learning
programs, including but not limited to Child Care Development
Block Grants and Head Start funding.
(2) The term ``Center-based child care provider'' means a
provider licensed or otherwise authorized to provide child care
services for fewer than 24 hours per day per child in a non-
residential setting, unless care in excess of 24 hours is due
to the nature of the parent(s)' work.
(3) The term ``family child care provider'' means one or
more individual(s) who provide child care services for fewer
than 24 hours per day per child, in a private residence other
than the child's residence, unless care in excess of 24 hours
is due to the nature of the parent(s)' work.
(4) The term ``sectarian organization and sectarian child
care provider'' means a religious organization or religious
provider generally. The terms embrace any organization or
provider that engages in religious conduct or activity or that
seeks to maintain a religious identity in some or all of its
functions. There is no requirement that a sectarian
organization or provider be managed by clergy or have any
particular degree of religious management, control, or content.
SEC. 3. PARENTAL RIGHTS AS A CONDITION OF FUNDING.
(a) Any provider receiving Federal funds towards providing child
care or early learning programs, including but not limited to Child
Care Development Block Grants or Head Start funding must develop a
parent's bill of rights for child care that includes--
(1) contact information for the state child abuse hotline
and agency responsible for investigating suspected abuse,
neglect, or exploitation in a child care operation;
(2) information on how to access the State's electronic
database, if applicable, of child care monitoring and
inspection reports as described in section 658E(c)(2)D) of the
Child Care and Development Block Grant Act;
(3) for Head Start and Early Head Start programs
information on how to access monitoring reports conducted by
the Office of Head Start;
(4) access to review such child care facility's written
records concerning the such child;
(5) receive from the child care facility, upon request, the
responsible state agency's inspection reports for the child
care facility and information about how to access the child
care facility's compliance history online;
(6) compliance by the facility with a court order
preventing another parent or guardian of such child from
visiting or removing such child from such facility;
(7) the contact information for the division responsible
for regulating the child care facility, including the
division's name, address, and phone number;
(8) access, within 2 business days from time of written
request, to any video recording of an alleged incident of abuse
or neglect involving such child if--
(A) such a video recording of the alleged incident
is available;
(B) such parent or guardian is prohibited from
retaining any part of the video recording depicting a
child who is not the child of such parent or guardian;
(C) the parent or guardian of any other child
captured in such video recording receives written
notice from such provider of a request for access to
such video recording;
(D) a copy of the child care facility's policies
and procedures; access to review such provider's--
(i) staff training records; and
(ii) any in-house staff training curriculum
used by such provider; and
(E) freedom from any retaliatory action by such a
provider for exercising any of the parent's or
guardian's rights under this Act.
(b) A child care provider shall provide the parent or guardian of a
child for whom it provides child care services a written copy of the
rights listed in subsection (a) no later than 45 days after the
effective date of this Act; or not later than the child's 1st day on
which such services begin after such effective date.
(c) This section does not affect the ability of a law enforcement
agency or a local- or state-run child protective services agency to
access a video recording as part of an investigation of an incident
depicted in such video recording.
SEC. 4. NOTICE OF REQUIREMENT TO COMPLY.
Not later than 30 days after the effective date of this Act, the
Director of the Department of Health and Human Services will direct the
Office of Child Care (OCC) and the Office of Head Start (OHS) to make
all current and future potential recipients of Child Care Development
Block Grants and Head Start funding aware of the new requirements.
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect 30 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the date of the enactment of this Act.
<all>