IIB 

116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7027 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 30, 2020 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations 

AN ACT 

Making additional supplemental appropriations for disaster 

relief requirements for the fiscal year ending September 

30, 2020, and for other purposes. 

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

3 The following sums in this Act are appropriated, out of 

4 any money in the Treasury not otherwise 


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1 appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 

2 2020, and for other purposes, namely: 

3 TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

4 HUMAN SERVICES 

5 ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

6 PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE CHILD CARE AND

7 DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT

8 For an additional amount for ‘‘Payments to States 

9 for the Child Care and Development Block Grant’’, 

10 $50,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 

11 2021, for necessary expenses to carry out the Child Care 

12 Stabilization Fund grants program, as authorized by sec13 tion 1 of this Act: Provided, That such funds shall be 

14 available without regard to the requirements in subpara15 graphs (C) through (E) of section 658E(c)(3) or section 

16 658G of the Child Care and Development Block Grant 

17 Act: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this 

18 heading in this Act may be made available to restore 

19 amounts, either directly or through reimbursement, for ob20 ligations incurred prior to the date of enactment of this 

21 Act for the purposes provided herein: Provided further, 

22 That such amount is designated by the Congress as being 

23 for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 

24 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 

25 Deficit Control Act of 1985 and shall be available only 


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1 if the President subsequently so designates such amount 

2 and transmits such designation to the Congress. 

3 CHILD CARE STABILIZATION FUND

4 SEC. 1. (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

5 (1) CCDBG TERMS.—The terms ‘‘eligible child 

6 care provider’’, ‘‘Indian tribe’’, ‘‘lead agency’’, ‘‘trib7 al organization’’, ‘‘Secretary’’, and ‘‘State’’ have the 

8 meanings given the terms in section 658P of the 

9 Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 

10 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858n) except as otherwise pro11 vided in this section. 

12 (2) COVID–19 PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.— 

13 The term ‘‘COVID–19 public health emergency’’ 

14 means the public health emergency declared by the 

15 Secretary of Health and Human Services under sec16 tion 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

17 U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with respect to 

18 COVID–19, including any renewal of the declara19 tion. 

20 (b) GRANTS.—From the amounts appropriated to 

21 carry out this section and under the authority of section 

22 658O of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act 

23 of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858m) and this section, the Secretary 

24 shall award child care stabilization grants to the lead 

25 agency of each State (as defined in that section 658O), 

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1 dian tribe, and tribal organization from allotments and 

2 payments made under subsection (c)(2), not later than 30 

3 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 

4 (c) SECRETARIAL RESERVATION AND ALLOT5 MENTS.— 

6 (1) RESERVATION.—The Secretary shall reserve 

7 not more than 1 percent of the funds appropriated 

8 to carry out this section for the Federal administra9 tion of grants described in subsection (b). 

10 (2) ALLOTMENTS.—The Secretary shall use the 

11 remainder of the funds appropriated to carry out 

12 this section to award allotments to States, as defined 

13 in section 658O of the Child Care Development 

14 Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858m), and 

15 payments to territories, Indian tribes, and tribal or16 ganizations in accordance with paragraphs (1) and 

17 (2) of subsection (a), and subsection (b), of section 

18 658O of the Child Care and Development Block 

19 Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858m). 

20 (d) STATE RESERVATIONS AND SUBGRANTS.— 

21 (1) RESERVATION.—A lead agency for a State 

22 that receives a child care stabilization grant pursu23 ant to subsection (b) shall reserve not more than 10 

24 percent of such grant funds— 


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1 (A) to administer subgrants made to quali2 fied child care providers under paragraph (2), 

3 including to carry out data systems building 

4 and other activities that enable the disburse5 ment of payments of such subgrants; 

6 (B) to provide technical assistance and 

7 support in applying for and accessing the 

8 subgrant opportunity under paragraph (2), to 

9 eligible child care providers (including to family 

10 child care providers, group home child care pro11 viders, and other non-center-based child care 

12 providers and providers with limited administra13 tive capacity), either directly or through re14 source and referral agencies or staffed family 

15 child care networks; 

16 (C) to publicize the availability of sub17 grants under this section and conduct wide18 spread outreach to eligible child care providers, 

19 including family child care providers, group 

20 home child care providers, and other non-cen21 ter-based child care providers and providers 

22 with limited administrative capacity, either di23 rectly or through resource and referral agencies 

24 or staffed family child care networks, to ensure 


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1 eligible child care providers are aware of the 

2 subgrants available under this section; 

3 (D) to carry out the reporting require4 ments described in subsection (f); and 

5 (E) to carry out activities to improve the 

6 supply and quality of child care during and 

7 after the COVID–19 public health emergency, 

8 such as conducting community needs assess9 ments, carrying out child care cost modeling, 

10 making improvements to child care facilities, in11 creasing access to licensure or participation in 

12 the State’s tiered quality rating system, and 

13 carrying out other activities described in section 

14 658G(b) of the Child Care and Development 

15 Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858e(b)), 

16 to the extent that the lead agency can carry out 

17 activities described in this subparagraph with18 out preventing the lead agency from fully con19 ducting the activities described in subpara20 graphs (A) through (D). 

21 (2) SUBGRANTS TO QUALIFIED CHILD CARE

22 PROVIDERS.— 

23 (A) IN GENERAL.—The lead agency shall 

24 use the remainder of the grant funds awarded 

25 pursuant to subsection (b) to make subgrants 


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1 to qualified child care providers described in 

2 subparagraph (B), to support the stability of 

3 the child care sector during and after the 

4 COVID–19 public health emergency. The lead 

5 agency shall provide the subgrant funds in ad6 vance of provider expenditures for costs de7 scribed in subsection (e), except as provided in 

8 subsection (e)(2). 

9 (B) QUALIFIED CHILD CARE PROVIDER.— 

10 To be qualified to receive a subgrant under this 

11 paragraph, a provider shall be an eligible child 

12 care provider that— 

13 (i) was providing child care services 

14 on or before March 1, 2020; and 

15 (ii) on the date of submission of an 

16 application for the subgrant, was either— 

17 (I) open and available to provide 

18 child care services; or 

19 (II) closed due to the COVID–19 

20 public health emergency. 

21 (C) SUBGRANT AMOUNT.—The lead agency 

22 shall make subgrants, from amounts awarded 

23 pursuant to subsection (b), to qualified child 

24 care providers, and the amount of such a 

25 subgrant to such a provider shall— 


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1 (i) be based on the provider’s stated 

2 average operating expenses during the pe3 riod (of not longer than 6 months) before 

4 March 1, 2020, or before the provider’s 

5 last day of operation for a provider that 

6 operates seasonally, and at minimum cover 

7 such operating expenses for the intended 

8 length of the subgrant; 

9 (ii) account for increased costs of pro10 viding or preparing to provide child care as 

11 a result of the COVID–19 public health 

12 emergency, such as provider and employee 

13 compensation and existing benefits (exist14 ing as of March 1, 2020) and the imple15 mentation of new practices related to sani16 tization, group size limits, and social 

17 distancing; 

18 (iii) be adjusted for payments or reim19 bursements made to an eligible child care 

20 provider to carry out the Child Care and 

21 Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 

22 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.) or the Head Start 

23 Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.); and 

24 (iv) be adjusted for payments or reim25 bursements made to an eligible child care 


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1 provider through the Paycheck Protection 

2 Program set forth in section 7(a)(36) of 

3 the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 

4 636(a)(36)), as added by section 1102 of 

5 the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic 

6 Security Act (Public Law 116–136). 

7 (D) APPLICATION.— 

8 (i) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to re9 ceive a subgrant under this paragraph, a 

10 child care provider shall submit an applica11 tion to a lead agency at such time and in 

12 such manner as the lead agency may re13 quire. Such application shall include— 

14 (I) a good-faith certification that 

15 the ongoing operations of the child 

16 care provider have been impacted as a 

17 result of the COVID–19 public health 

18 emergency; 

19 (II) for a provider described in 

20 subparagraph (B)(ii)(I), an assurance 

21 that, for the duration of the COVID– 

22 19 public health emergency— 

23 (aa) the provider will give 

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1 cluding slots that are only tempo2 rarily available) to— 

3 (AA) children of essen4 tial workers (such as health 

5 care sector employees, emer6 gency responders, sanitation 

7 workers, farmworkers, child 

8 care employees, and other 

9 workers determined to be es10 sential during the response 

11 to coronavirus by public offi12 cials), children of workers 

13 whose places of employment 

14 require their attendance, 

15 children experiencing home16 lessness, children with dis17 abilities, children at risk of 

18 child abuse or neglect, and 

19 children in foster care, in 

20 States, tribal communities, 

21 or localities where stay-at22 home or related orders are 

23 in effect; or 

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1 ment require their attend2 ance, children experiencing 

3 homelessness, children with 

4 disabilities, children at risk 

5 of child abuse or neglect, 

6 children in foster care, and 

7 children whose parents are 

8 in school or a training pro9 gram, in States, tribal com10 munities, or localities where 

11 stay-at-home or related or12 ders are not in effect; 

13 (bb) the provider will imple14 ment policies in line with guid15 ance from the Centers for Dis16 ease Control and Prevention and 

17 the corresponding State, tribal, 

18 and local authorities, and in ac19 cordance with State, tribal, and 

20 local orders, for child care pro21 viders that remain open, includ22 ing guidance on sanitization 

23 practices, group size limits, and 

24 social distancing; 


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1 (cc) for each employee, the 

2 provider will pay the full com3 pensation described in subsection 

4 (e)(1)(C), including any benefits, 

5 that was provided to the em6 ployee as of March 1, 2020 (re7 ferred to in this clause as ‘‘full 

8 compensation’’), and will not take 

9 any action that reduces the week10 ly amount of the employee’s com11 pensation below the weekly 

12 amount of full compensation, or 

13 that reduces the employee’s rate 

14 of compensation below the rate of 

15 full compensation; and 

16 (dd) the provider will pro17 vide relief from copayments and 

18 tuition payments for the families 

19 enrolled in the provider’s pro20 gram and prioritize such relief 

21 for families struggling to make 

22 either type of payments; 

23 (III) for a provider described in 

24 subparagraph (B)(ii)(II), an assur25 ance that— 


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1 (aa) for the duration of the 

2 provider’s closure due to the 

3 COVID–19 public health emer4 gency, for each employee, the 

5 provider will pay full compensa6 tion, and will not take any action 

7 that reduces the weekly amount 

8 of the employee’s compensation 

9 below the weekly amount of full 

10 compensation, or that reduces 

11 the employee’s rate of compensa12 tion below the rate of full com13 pensation; 

14 (bb) children enrolled as of 

15 March 1, 2020, will maintain 

16 their slots, unless their families 

17 choose to disenroll the children; 

18 (cc) for the duration of the 

19 provider’s closure due to the 

20 COVID–19 public health emer21 gency, the provider will provide 

22 relief from copayments and tui23 tion payments for the families 

24 enrolled in the provider’s pro25 gram and prioritize such relief 


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1 for families struggling to make 

2 either type of payments; and 

3 (dd) the provider will re4 sume operations when the pro5 vider is able to safely implement 

6 policies in line with guidance 

7 from the Centers for Disease 

8 Control and Prevention and the 

9 corresponding State, tribal, and 

10 local authorities, and in accord11 ance with State, tribal, and local 

12 orders; 

13 (IV) information about the child 

14 care provider’s— 

15 (aa) program characteristics 

16 sufficient to allow the lead agen17 cy to establish the child care pro18 vider’s priority status, as de19 scribed in subparagraph (F); 

20 (bb) program operational 

21 status on the date of submission 

22 of the application; 

23 (cc) type of program, includ24 ing whether the program is a 

25 center-based child care, family 


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1 child care, group home child care, 

2 or other non-center-based child 

3 care type program; 

4 (dd) total enrollment on the 

5 date of submission of the applica6 tion and total capacity as allowed 

7 by the State and tribal authori8 ties; and 

9 (ee) receipt of assistance, 

10 and amount of assistance, 

11 through a payment or reimburse12 ment described in subparagraph 

13 (C)(iv), and the time period for 

14 which the assistance was made; 

15 (V) information necessary to de16 termine the amount of the subgrant, 

17 such as information about the pro18 vider’s stated average operating ex19 penses over the appropriate period, 

20 described in subparagraph (C)(i); and 

21 (VI) such other limited informa22 tion as the lead agency shall deter23 mine to be necessary to make sub24 grants to qualified child care pro25 viders. 


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1 (ii) FREQUENCY.—The lead agency 

2 shall accept and process applications sub3 mitted under this subparagraph on a roll4 ing basis. 

5 (iii) UPDATES.—The lead agency 

6 shall— 

7 (I) at least once a month, verify 

8 by obtaining a self-attestation from 

9 each qualified child care provider that 

10 received such a subgrant from the 

11 agency, whether the provider is open 

12 and available to provide child care 

13 services or is closed due to the 

14 COVID–19 public health emergency; 

15 (II) allow the qualified child care 

16 provider to update the information 

17 provided in a prior application; and 

18 (III) adjust the qualified child 

19 care provider’s subgrant award as 

20 necessary, based on changes to the 

21 application information, including 

22 changes to the provider’s operational 

23 status. 

24 (iv) EXISTING APPLICATIONS.—If a 

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1 mented a grant program for child care pro2 viders that is in effect on the date of en3 actment of this Act, and an eligible child 

4 care provider has already submitted an ap5 plication for such a grant to the lead agen6 cy containing the information specified in 

7 clause (i), the lead agency shall treat that 

8 application as an application submitted 

9 under this subparagraph. If an eligible 

10 child care provider has already submitted 

11 such an application containing part of the 

12 information specified in clause (i), the pro13 vider may submit to the lead agency an ab14 breviated application that contains the re15 maining information, and the lead agency 

16 shall treat the 2 applications as an applica17 tion submitted under this subparagraph. 

18 (E) MATERIALS.— 

19 (i) IN GENERAL.—The lead agency 

20 shall provide the materials and other re21 sources related to such subgrants, includ22 ing a notification of subgrant opportunities 

23 and application materials, to qualified child 

24 care providers in the most commonly spo25 ken languages in the State. 


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1 (ii) APPLICATION.—The application 

2 shall be accessible on the website of the 

3 lead agency within 30 days after the lead 

4 agency receives grant funds awarded pur5 suant to subsection (b) and shall be acces6 sible to all eligible child care providers, in7 cluding family child care providers, group 

8 home child care providers, and other non9 center-based child care providers and pro10 viders with limited administrative capacity. 

11 (F) PRIORITY.—In making subgrants 

12 under this section, the lead agency shall give 

13 priority to qualified child care providers that, 

14 prior to or on March 1, 2020— 

15 (i) provided child care during non16 traditional hours; 

17 (ii) served dual language learners, 

18 children with disabilities, children experi19 encing homelessness, children in foster 

20 care, children from low-income families, or 

21 infants and toddlers; 

22 (iii) served a high proportion of chil23 dren whose families received subsidies 

24 under the Child Care and Development 


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1 Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9857 

2 et seq.) for the child care; or 

3 (iv) operated in communities, includ4 ing rural communities, with a low supply 

5 of child care. 

6 (G) PROVIDERS RECEIVING OTHER ASSIST7 ANCE.—The lead agency, in determining wheth8 er a provider is a qualified child care provider, 

9 shall not take into consideration receipt of a 

10 payment or reimbursement described in sub11 paragraph (C)(iii) or subparagraph (C)(iv). 

12 (H) AWARDS.—The lead agency shall equi13 tably make subgrants under this paragraph to 

14 center-based child care providers, family child 

15 care providers, group home child care providers, 

16 and other non-center-based child care providers, 

17 such that qualified child care providers are able 

18 to access the subgrant opportunity under this 

19 paragraph regardless of the providers’ setting, 

20 size, or administrative capacity. 

21 (I) OBLIGATION.—The lead agency shall 

22 obligate at least 50 percent of funds available 

23 to carry out this section for subgrants described 

24 in this paragraph, by December 31, 2020. 

25 (e) USES OF FUNDS.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—A qualified child care pro2 vider that receives funds through such a subgrant 

3 may use the funds for the costs of— 

4 (A) payroll; 

5 (B) employee benefits, including group 

6 health plan benefits during periods of paid sick, 

7 medical, or family leave, and insurance pre8 miums; 

9 (C) employee salaries or similar compensa10 tion, including any income or other compensa11 tion to a sole proprietor or independent con12 tractor that is a wage, commission, income, net 

13 earnings from self-employment, or similar com14 pensation; 

15 (D) payment on any mortgage obligation; 

16 (E) rent (including rent under a lease 

17 agreement); 

18 (F) utilities; 

19 (G) insurance; 

20 (H) providing premium pay for child care 

21 providers and other employees who provide 

22 services during the COVID–19 public health 

23 emergency; 

24 (I) sanitization and other costs associated 

25 with cleaning; 


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1 (J) personal protective equipment and 

2 other equipment necessary to carry out the 

3 functions of the child care provider; 

4 (K) training and professional development 

5 related to health and safety practices, including 

6 the proper implementation of policies in line 

7 with guidance from the Centers for Disease 

8 Control and Prevention and the corresponding 

9 State, tribal, and local authorities, and in ac10 cordance with State, tribal, and local orders; 

11 (L) modifications to child care services as 

12 a result of the COVID–19 public health emer13 gency, such as limiting group sizes, adjusting 

14 staff-to-child ratios, and implementing other 

15 heightened health and safety measures; 

16 (M) mental health supports for children 

17 and employees; and 

18 (N) other goods and services necessary to 

19 maintain or resume operation of the child care 

20 program, or to maintain the viability of the 

21 child care provider as a going concern during 

22 and after the COVID–19 public health emer23 gency. 

24 (2) REIMBURSEMENT.—The qualified child care 

25 provider may use the subgrant funds to reimburse 


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1 the provider for sums obligated or expended before 

2 the date of enactment of this Act for the cost of a 

3 good or service described in paragraph (1) to re4 spond to the COVID–19 public health emergency. 

5 (f) REPORTING.— 

6 (1) INITIAL REPORT.—A lead agency receiving 

7 a grant under this section shall, within 60 days after 

8 making the agency’s first subgrant under subsection 

9 (d)(2) to a qualified child care provider, submit a re10 port to the Secretary that includes— 

11 (A) data on qualified child care providers 

12 that applied for subgrants and qualified child 

13 care providers that received such subgrants, in14 cluding— 

15 (i) the number of such applicants and 

16 the number of such recipients; 

17 (ii) the number and proportion of 

18 such applicants and recipients that re19 ceived priority and the characteristic or 

20 characteristics of such applicants and re21 cipients associated with the priority; 

22 (iii) the number and proportion of 

23 such applicants and recipients that are— 

24 (I) center-based child care pro25 viders; 


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1 (II) family child care providers; 

2 (III) group home child care pro3 viders; or 

4 (IV) other non-center-based child 

5 care providers; and 

6 (iv) within each of the groups listed in 

7 clause (iii), the number of such applicants 

8 and recipients that are, on the date of sub9 mission of the application— 

10 (I) open and available to provide 

11 child care services; or 

12 (II) closed due to the COVID–19 

13 public health emergency; 

14 (B) the total capacity of child care pro15 viders that are licensed, regulated, or registered 

16 in the State on the date of the submission of 

17 the report; 

18 (C) a description of— 

19 (i) the efforts of the lead agency to 

20 publicize the availability of subgrants 

21 under this section and conduct widespread 

22 outreach to eligible child care providers 

23 about such subgrants, including efforts to 

24 make materials available in languages 

25 other than English; 


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1 (ii) the lead agency’s methodology for 

2 determining amounts of subgrants under 

3 subsection (d)(2); 

4 (iii) the lead agency’s timeline for dis5 bursing the subgrant funds; and 

6 (iv) the lead agency’s plan for ensur7 ing that qualified child care providers that 

8 receive funding through such a subgrant 

9 comply with assurances described in sub10 section (d)(2)(D) and use funds in compli11 ance with subsection (e); and 

12 (D) such other limited information as the 

13 Secretary may require. 

14 (2) QUARTERLY REPORT.—The lead agency 

15 shall, following the submission of such initial report, 

16 submit to the Secretary a report that contains the 

17 information described in subparagraphs (A), (B), 

18 and (D) of paragraph (1) once a quarter until all 

19 funds allotted for activities authorized under this 

20 section are expended. 

21 (3) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 60 days 

22 after a lead agency receiving a grant under this sec23 tion has obligated all of the grant funds (including 

24 funds received under subsection (h)), the lead agen25 cy shall submit a report to the Secretary, in such 


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1 manner as the Secretary may require, that in2 cludes— 

3 (A) the total number of eligible child care 

4 providers who were providing child care services 

5 on or before March 1, 2020, in the State and 

6 the number of such providers that submitted an 

7 application under subsection (d)(2)(D); 

8 (B) the number of qualified child care pro9 viders in the State that received funds through 

10 the grant; 

11 (C) the lead agency’s methodology for de12 termining amounts of subgrants under sub13 section (d)(2); 

14 (D) the average and range of the subgrant 

15 amounts by provider type (center-based child 

16 care, family child care, group home child care, 

17 or other non-center-based child care provider); 

18 (E) the percentages of the child care pro19 viders that received such a subgrant, that, on or 

20 before March 1, 2020— 

21 (i) provided child care during non22 traditional hours; 

23 (ii) served dual language learners, 

24 children with disabilities, children experi25 encing homelessness, children in foster 


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1 care, children from low-income families, or 

2 infants and toddlers; 

3 (iii) served a high proportion of chil4 dren whose families received subsidies 

5 under the Child Care and Development 

6 Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9857 

7 et seq.) for the child care; and 

8 (iv) operated in communities, includ9 ing rural communities, with a low supply 

10 of child care; 

11 (F) the number of children served by the 

12 child care providers that received such a 

13 subgrant, for the duration of the subgrant; 

14 (G) the percentages, of the child care pro15 viders that received such a subgrant, that are— 

16 (i) center-based child care providers; 

17 (ii) family child care providers; 

18 (iii) group home child care providers; 

19 or 

20 (iv) other non-center-based child care 

21 providers; 

22 (H) the percentages, of the child care pro23 viders listed in subparagraph (G) that are, on 

24 the date of submission of the application— 


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1 (i) open and available to provide child 

2 care services; or 

3 (ii) closed due to the COVID–19 pub4 lic health emergency; 

5 (I) information about how child care pro6 viders used the funds received under such a 

7 subgrant; 

8 (J) information about how the lead agency 

9 used funds reserved under subsection (d)(1); 

10 and 

11 (K) information about how the subgrants 

12 helped to stabilize the child care sector. 

13 (4) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.— 

14 (A) FINDINGS FROM INITIAL REPORTS.— 

15 Not later than 60 days after receiving all re16 ports required to be submitted under paragraph 

17 (1), the Secretary shall provide a report to the 

18 Committee on Education and Labor of the 

19 House of Representatives, to the Committee on 

20 Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the 

21 Senate, and to the Committees on Appropria22 tions of the House of Representatives and the 

23 Senate, summarizing the findings from the re24 ports received under paragraph (1). 


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1 (B) FINDINGS FROM FINAL REPORTS.— 

2 Not later than 36 months after the date of en3 actment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide 

4 a report to the Committee on Education and 

5 Labor of the House of Representatives, to the 

6 Committee on Health, Education, Labor and 

7 Pensions of the Senate, and to the Committees 

8 on Appropriations of the House of Representa9 tives and the Senate, summarizing the findings 

10 from the reports received under paragraph (3). 

11 (g) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Amounts made 

12 available to carry out this section shall be used to supple13 ment and not supplant other Federal, State, and local 

14 public funds expended to provide child care services for 

15 eligible individuals, including funds provided under the 

16 Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 

17 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.) and State child care programs. 

18 (h) REALLOTMENT OF UNOBLIGATED FUNDS.— 

19 (1) UNOBLIGATED FUNDS.—A State, Indian 

20 tribe, or tribal organization shall return to the Sec21 retary any grant funds received under this section 

22 that the State, Indian tribe, or tribal organization 

23 does not obligate by September 30, 2021. 

24 (2) REALLOTMENT.—The Secretary shall award 

25 new allotments and payments, in accordance with 


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1 subsection (c)(2), to covered States, Indian tribes, or 

2 tribal organizations from funds that are returned 

3 under paragraph (1) within 60 days of receiving 

4 such funds. Funds made available through the new 

5 allotments and payments shall remain available to 

6 each covered State, Indian tribe, or tribal organiza7 tion until September 30, 2022. 

8 (3) COVERED STATE, INDIAN TRIBE, OR TRIBAL

9 ORGANIZATION.—For purposes of paragraph (2), a 

10 covered State, Indian tribe, or tribal organization is 

11 a State, Indian tribe, or tribal organization that re12 ceived an allotment or payment under this section 

13 and was not required to return grant funds under 

14 paragraph (1). 

15 (i) EXCEPTIONS.—The Child Care and Development 

16 Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.), exclud17 ing requirements in subparagraphs (C) through (E) of sec18 tion 658E(c)(3), section 658G, and section 658J(c) of 

19 such Act (42 U.S.C. 9858c(c)(3), 9858e, 9858h(c)), shall 

20 apply to child care services provided under this section to 

21 the extent the application of such Act does not conflict 

22 with the provisions of this section. Nothing in this Act 

23 shall be construed to require a State, Indian tribe, or trib24 al organization to submit an application, other than the 

25 application described in section 658E or 658O(c) of the 


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1 Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 

2 U.S.C. 9858c, 9858m(c)), to receive a grant under this 

3 Act. 

4 (j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION.— 

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 

6 appropriated to carry out this Act $50,000,000,000 

7 for fiscal year 2020. 

8 (2) APPLICATION.—In carrying out the Child 

9 Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 

10 with funds other than the funds appropriated under 

11 paragraph (1), the Secretary shall calculate the 

12 amounts of appropriated funds described in sub13 sections (a) and (b) of section 658O of such Act (42 

14 U.S.C. 9858m) by excluding funds appropriated 

15 under paragraph (1). 

16 SEC. 2. Each amount appropriated or made available 

17 by this Act is in addition to any amounts otherwise appro18 priated for the fiscal year involved. 

19 SEC. 3. Unless otherwise provided for by this Act, 

20 the additional amounts appropriated by this Act to appro21 priations accounts shall be available under the authorities 

22 and conditions applicable to such appropriations accounts 

23 for fiscal year 2020. 


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1 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child Care Is Essential 

2 Act’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives July 29, 2020. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 

By GLORIA J. LETT, 

Deputy Clerk. 


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