HR 581
Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025
Summary
Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025 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
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Rep. Josh Harder [D-CA-9]
- Cosponsors
- 3
- Policy area
- Families
- Introduced
- 2025-01-21
- Latest action
- 2025-01-21: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-01-21: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- 2025-01-21: Introduced in House
- 2025-01-21: Introduced in House