Bill > S3567

This bill, the Helping Health Care Workers Afford Child and Elder Care Act, provides $5 billion in funding for fiscal year 2020 to ensure that essential workers, including health sector employees, emergency responders, sanitation workers, and other workers deemed essential by the state, can access child care and adult-dependent care services during the public health emergency declared on January 31, 2020. Eligibility for this funding is not based on income, and the funds can be used to reimburse essential workers for the cost of obtaining these services or to establish temporary child care facilities operated by state or local governments. The funds must be used to supplement, not replace, existing state funding for child care assistance, and cannot be used for costs already covered by other federal programs.

Budget and Finance

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3567/all-info