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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5694 
To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to 
require child care providers to provide to parents information regarding 
whether such providers carry current liability insurance. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 28, 2006 
Mr. BARROW introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
Act of 1990 to require child care providers to provide 
to parents information regarding whether such providers 
carry current liability insurance. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anthony DeJuan 
Boatwright Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 
Section 658e(c)(2) of the Child Care and Develop-
ment Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(c)(2)) 
is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (E)(i) by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘The State shall include as part of its 
regulatory process for issuance and renewal of li-
censes to providers of child care services, a rec-
ommendation to each provider that it carry current 
liability insurance.’’, and 
(2) in subparagraph (F)— 
(A) in clause (ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end, 
(B) in clause (iii) by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon, 
(C) by inserting after clause (iii) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(iv) a requirement that each child 
care provider post publicly and conspicu-
ously in the service area of its premises a 
notice specifying whether or not such pro-
vider carries current liability insurance ap-
plicable to its premises and its services; 
and 
‘‘(v) requirements that each child care 
provider— 
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‘‘(I) provide to parents of chil-
dren to whom it provides child care 
services a written notice stating 
whether or not such provider carries 
such insurance; 
‘‘(II) obtain the signature of at 
least 1 parent of each such child on 
such written notice acknowledging 
that such parent has received such no-
tice; and 
‘‘(III) maintain such notice (or a 
copy of such notice) as signed by such 
parents (or a copy of the signed no-
tice) in such provider’s records during 
the period in which the child receives 
such services and during the 1-year 
period beginning on the date the child 
ceases to receive such services.’’, and 
(D) in the last sentence by inserting 
‘‘clauses (i), (ii), or (iii) of’’ after ‘‘Nothing in’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall 
take effect on October 1 of the 1st fiscal year that begins 
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more than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
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