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H.R. 2817: Child Care for Working Families Act

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H.R. 2817: Child Care for Working Families Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-04-22 · Families · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-04-22 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Child Care for Working Families Act

Plain summary

Child Care for Working Families Act This bill provides funds and otherwise revises certain child care and early learning programs for low- to moderate-income families. Specifically, the bill provides funds for the Child Care and Development Block Grant program and reestablishes it as a child care and development assistance program. The bill also allocates program funds for states to provide services and supports to infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities. Further, the bill revises the program to require each state to create a tiered and transparent system for measuring the quality of child care providers, which must include evidence-based standards and payment rates that are based on a certain cost estimation model; ensure that copayments are based on a sliding scale and that no family receiving assistance pays more than 7% of its household income on child care; and use quality child care amounts for certain activities, such as increasing the supply of child care providers. The bill also provides funds and establishes grants for states to create preschool programs for low- to moderate-income children between the ages of three and five years. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must make grants to Head Start agencies to provide children with access to full-school-year and full-school-day services, provide access to additional service hours for migrant and seasonal agencies, or enhance the quality of existing services. Finally, the bill requires, and provides funds for, HHS to assist Head Start agencies with ensuring their teachers and staff are paid a living wage.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Child Care for Working Families Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3] · 106 cosponsors

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Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Mark Takano (D-CA), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM), Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Haley M. Stevens (D-MI), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Adam Smith (D-WA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), John B. Larson (D-CT), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), André Carson (D-IN), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Darren Soto (D-FL) and 46 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3] reported raising $882,179 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr2817 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117