US Congress Senate Bill 3874 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-2)
Status: Introduced on June 3 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-06-03 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes and provides $50 billion in appropriations for the Child Care Stabilization Fund to award grants to child care providers during and after the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. The bill establishes the fund within the existing Department of Health and Human Services Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program, and the grants must be administered by the existing CCDBG lead agencies of states, tribes, or territories. Child care providers that are currently open or temporarily closed due to COVID-19 are eligible to receive grant awards, which are based on the provider's operating costs before the COVID-19 public health emergency and adjusted to account for the increased costs of providing child care as a result of COVID-19.

Child Care Is Essential Act

Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. Angus King [I-ME]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-06-03	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB7027 (Related) 2020-07-30 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
HR1053 (Similar To) 2020-07-20 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
SB4112 (Related) 2020-06-30 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3874/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3874/BILLS-116s3874is.pdf