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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3610
To provide for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of child care
facilities or equipment, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 10, 2000
Mr. JACKSON of Illinois (for himself and Mr. GUTIERREZ) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the
Workforce
A BILL
To provide for the acquisition, construction, and improve-
ment of child care facilities or equipment, and for other
purposes.
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 ‘‘Child Care Facilities
Financing Act’’.
SEC. 2. TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) CHILD CARE FACILITY.—The term ‘‘child
care facility’’ means a center-based or home-based
child care facility.
(2) ELIGIBLE INTERMEDIARY.—The term ‘‘eli-
gible intermediary’’ means a private, nonprofit inter-
mediary organization that has demonstrated experi-
ence in—
(A) providing technical or financial assist-
ance for the construction and renovation of
physical facilities;
(B) providing technical or financial assist-
ance to child care providers; and
(C) securing private sources for capital fi-
nancing of child care or other low-income com-
munity development.
(3) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENT.—The term ‘‘eligible
recipient’’ means—
(A) any existing or new center-based or
home-based child care provider that provides
services to eligible children under a program
carried out under the Child Care and Develop-
ment Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858
et seq.), or another program serving low-income
children as determined by the Secretary; and
(B) any organization in the process of es-
tablishing a center-based or home-based child
care program or otherwise seeking to provide
child care services to children described in sub-
paragraph (A).
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
(b) GRANT AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may award
grants on a competitive basis in accordance with this sec-
tion to eligible intermediaries to assist the intermediaries
in carrying out the activities described in subsection (e).
(c) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible to receive a grant
under this section an eligible intermediary shall submit to
the Secretary an application, in such form and containing
such information as the Secretary may require.
(d) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion the Secretary shall give a priority to applicants under
subsection (c) that serve low-income areas or individuals.
(e) USE OF FUNDS.—
(1) REVOLVING
FUND.—Each eligible inter-
mediary that receives a grant under this section
shall deposit the grant amount into a child care re-
volving fund established by the eligible intermediary.
(2) PAYMENTS FROM FUND.—Subject to sub-
section (f), from amounts deposited into the revolv-
ing fund under paragraph (1), each eligible inter-
mediary shall provide technical and financial assist-
ance (in the form of loans, grants, investments,
guarantees, interest subsidies, and other appropriate
forms of assistance) to eligible recipients to pay for
the Federal share of the cost of the acquisition, con-
struction, or improvement of child care facilities or
equipment, or for the improvement of related man-
agement and business practices, for each such recipi-
ent. Funds may be used solely for the purpose of
providing technical or financial assistance.
(3) LOAN REPAYMENTS AND INVESTMENT PRO-
CEEDS.—Any amount received by an eligible inter-
mediary from an eligible recipient in the form of a
loan repayment or investment proceeds shall be de-
posited into the child care revolving fund of the eligi-
ble intermediary for redistribution to other eligible
recipients in accordance with this section.
(f) FEDERAL SHARE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share of the
cost described in subsection (e)(2) shall be not more
than 50 percent.
(2) NON-FEDERAL
SHARE.—The non-Federal
share of the cost may be provided in cash or in kind,
fairly evaluated, including plant, equipment, or serv-
ices.
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
$50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005.
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