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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 10258 

To protect babies and young children in childcare settings by strengthening 

transparency and safety requirements. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 26, 2024 

Mr. FALLON (for himself, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. SESSIONS, Ms. VAN DUYNE, and 

Mr. WEBER of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 

A BILL 

To protect babies and young children in childcare settings 

by strengthening transparency and safety requirements. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Kairo Act of 2024’’. 

5 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

6 For purposes of this Act: 

7 (1) The term ‘‘certain child care provider’’ 

8 means a center-based child care provider, a family 

9 child care provider, a sectarian child care provider, 

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1 tion that receives any amount of Federal funding to2 wards providing child care or early learning pro3 grams, including but not limited to Child Care De4 velopment Block Grants and Head Start funding. 

5 (2) The term ‘‘Center-based child care pro6 vider’’ means a provider licensed or otherwise au7 thorized to provide child care services for fewer than 

8 24 hours per day per child in a non-residential set9 ting, unless care in excess of 24 hours is due to the 

10 nature of the parent(s)’ work. 

11 (3) The term ‘‘family child care provider’’ 

12 means one or more individual(s) who provide child 

13 care services for fewer than 24 hours per day per 

14 child, in a private residence other than the child’s 

15 residence, unless care in excess of 24 hours is due 

16 to the nature of the parent(s)’ work. 

17 (4) The term ‘‘sectarian organization and sec18 tarian child care provider’’ means a religious organi19 zation or religious provider generally. The terms em20 brace any organization or provider that engages in 

21 religious conduct or activity or that seeks to main22 tain a religious identity in some or all of its func23 tions. There is no requirement that a sectarian orga24 nization or provider be managed by clergy or have 


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1 any particular degree of religious management, con2 trol, or content. 

3 SEC. 3. PARENTAL RIGHTS AS A CONDITION OF FUNDING. 

4 (a) Any provider receiving Federal funds towards 

5 providing child care or early learning programs, including 

6 but not limited to Child Care Development Block Grants 

7 or Head Start funding must develop a parent’s bill of 

8 rights for child care that includes— 

9 (1) contact information for the state child 

10 abuse hotline and agency responsible for inves11 tigating suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation in 

12 a child care operation; 

13 (2) information on how to access the State’s 

14 electronic database, if applicable, of child care moni15 toring and inspection reports as described in section 

16 658E(c)(2)D) of the Child Care and Development 

17 Block Grant Act; 

18 (3) for Head Start and Early Head Start pro19 grams information on how to access monitoring re20 ports conducted by the Office of Head Start; 

21 (4) access to review such child care facility’s 

22 written records concerning the such child; 

23 (5) receive from the child care facility, upon re24 quest, the responsible state agency’s inspection re25 ports for the child care facility and information 


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1 about how to access the child care facility’s compli2 ance history online; 

3 (6) compliance by the facility with a court order 

4 preventing another parent or guardian of such child 

5 from visiting or removing such child from such facil6 ity; 

7 (7) the contact information for the division re8 sponsible for regulating the child care facility, in9 cluding the division’s name, address, and phone 

10 number; 

11 (8) access, within 2 business days from time of 

12 written request, to any video recording of an alleged 

13 incident of abuse or neglect involving such child if— 

14 (A) such a video recording of the alleged 

15 incident is available; 

16 (B) such parent or guardian is prohibited 

17 from retaining any part of the video recording 

18 depicting a child who is not the child of such 

19 parent or guardian; and 

20 (C) the parent or guardian of any other 

21 child captured in such video recording receives 

22 written notice from such provider of a request 

23 for access to such video recording; 


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1 (D) a copy of the child care facility’s poli2 cies and procedures; access to review such pro3 vider’s— 

4 (i) staff training records; and 

5 (ii) any in-house staff training cur6 riculum used by such provider; and 

7 (E) freedom from any retaliatory action by 

8 such a provider for exercising any of the par9 ent’s or guardian’s rights under this Act. 

10 (b) A child care provider shall provide the parent or 

11 guardian of a child for whom it provides child care services 

12 a written copy of the rights listed in subsection (a) no 

13 later than 45 days after the effective date of this Act; or 

14 not later than the child’s 1st day on which such services 

15 begin after such effective date. 

16 (c) This section does not affect the ability of a law 

17 enforcement agency or a local- or state-run child protective 

18 services agency to access a video recording as part of an 

19 investigation of an incident depicted in such video record20 ing. 

21 SEC. 4. NOTICE OF REQUIREMENT TO COMPLY. 

22 Not later than 30 days after the effective date of this 

23 Act, the Director of the Department of Health and 

24 Human Services will direct the Office of Child Care (OCC) 

25 and the Office of Head Start (OHS) to make all current 


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1 and future potential recipients of Child Care Development 

2 Block Grants and Head Start funding aware of the new 

3 requirements. 

4 SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

5 This Act shall take effect 30 days after the date of 

6 the enactment of this Act, the date of the enactment of 

7 this Act. 

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