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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10015 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10015

 To require that States that receive a grant under the Child Care and 
 Development Block Grant Act of 1990, will not prohibit licensed child 
 care providers from performing simple food preparation of fruits and 
                              vegetables.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 18, 2024

  Ms. Perez (for herself and Ms. Foxx) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL

 
 To require that States that receive a grant under the Child Care and 
 Development Block Grant Act of 1990, will not prohibit licensed child 
 care providers from performing simple food preparation of fruits and 
                              vegetables.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Cutting Red Tape on Child Care 
Providers Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) Access to minimally processed fruits, vegetables, nuts 
        and seeds is crucial for the development and well-being of 
        children.
            (2) Licensed child care providers often face restrictions 
        on food preparation that limit their ability to serve fresh 
        fruits and vegetables.
             (3) Home and family based child care options, (estimated 
        to serve about \1/4\ of families), have seen steady declines 
        over the past decade. While this decreases child care choices 
        for all families, it disproportionately impacts low-income and 
        rural families and those requiring daycare at non-traditional 
        times because of shift work.
            (4) Complicated and burdensome regulations are more 
        challenging for home-based providers and are likely a part of 
        the reason these centers are declining.
            (5) Current regulations can make it easier to open a pre-
        packaged, often ultra-processed, snack than it is to, for 
        example, peel a banana. This undermines the ability of child 
        care providers to provide basic nutrition to our kids.
            (6) Simplifying regulations to encourage simple food 
        preparation of minimally processed agricultural products can 
        improve nutritional outcomes for children.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``simple food preparation'' 
means the basic preparation of fruits and vegetables, including 
washing, peeling, cutting, and serving raw or minimally processed 
produce.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF BARRIERS UNDER THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT 
              BLOCK GRANT ACT OF 1990.

    Section 658E(c)(2)(F) of the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(2)(F)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
                            ``(iii) Prohibition of barriers.--The State 
                        shall not create any barriers on the simple 
                        preparation of fresh fruits and vegetables for 
                        facilities, licensed or licensed exempt.''.
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