Bill > HR1911

This bill, the "Child Care is Infrastructure Act", aims to improve the safety and quality of child care facilities across the United States. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct immediate and long-term assessments of the condition of child care facilities, with a focus on facilities receiving federal funds. 2. Establishing a grant program to provide funding to states for acquiring, constructing, renovating, or improving child care facilities, with priority given to facilities serving low-income populations, children under 5 years old, and rural or underserved communities. 3. Creating a grant program for intermediary organizations, such as community development financial institutions, to provide technical assistance and financial products to help develop or finance child care facilities. 4. Establishing an early childhood educator loan assistance program to help repay the educational loans of eligible early childhood educators who commit to serving for at least 5 years. 5. Providing grants to institutions of higher education with qualified early childhood educator programs to enable them to make grants to eligible individuals enrolled in such programs, with a service obligation requirement. 6. Reauthorizing and amending the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program to increase funding and strengthen reporting requirements. The bill also includes provisions to ensure that laborers and mechanics employed on infrastructure projects funded under the bill are paid prevailing wages, and requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to consider early care and learning facilities as neighborhood assets when evaluating applications for the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative.

Education, Health and Social Services, Labor and Employment

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1911/all-info