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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6045 
To amend the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration to publish or update a resource guide for small 
business concerns operating as child care providers, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 13, 2025 
Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia (for herself, Mr. STAUBER, and Ms. CHU) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small 
Business 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Business Act to require the Adminis-
trator of the Small Business Administration to publish 
or update a resource guide for small business concerns 
operating as child care providers, 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 ‘‘Convening Operations 
Assistance for Childcare Heroes Act’’ or the ‘‘COACH 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CHILD CARE RESOURCE GUIDE. 
The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 49 as section 50; 
and 
(2) by inserting after section 48 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 49. CHILD CARE RESOURCE GUIDE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this section and not less fre-
quently than every 5 years thereafter, the Administrator 
shall publish or update a resource guide, applicable to var-
ious business models as determined by the Administrator, 
for small business concerns operating as child care pro-
viders. 
‘‘(b) GUIDANCE
ON SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN 
MATTERS.—The resource guide required under subsection 
(a) shall include guidance for such small business concerns 
related to— 
‘‘(1) operations (including marketing and man-
agement planning); 
‘‘(2) finances (including financial planning, fi-
nancing, payroll, and insurance); 
‘‘(3) compliance with relevant laws (including 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and this Act); 
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‘‘(4) training and safety (including equipment 
and materials); 
‘‘(5) quality (including eligibility for funding 
under the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.) as an eligible 
child care provider); and 
‘‘(6) any other matters the Administrator deter-
mines appropriate. 
‘‘(c) CONSULTATION REQUIRED.—Before publication 
or update of the resource guide required under subsection 
(a), the Administrator shall consult with the following: 
‘‘(1) The Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices. 
‘‘(2) Representatives from lead agencies des-
ignated under section 658D of the Child Care and 
Development Block Grant Act of 1990. 
‘‘(3) Representatives from local or regional 
child care resource and referral organizations de-
scribed in section 658E(c)(3)(B)(iii)(I) of the Child 
Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 9858c(c)(3)(B)(iii)(I)). 
‘‘(4) Any other relevant entities as determined 
by the Administrator. 
‘‘(d) 
PUBLICATION
AND
DISSEMINATION
RE-
QUIRED.— 
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‘‘(1) PUBLICATION.—The Administrator shall 
publish the resource guide required under subsection 
(a) in English and in the 10 most commonly spoken 
languages, other than English, in the United States, 
which shall include Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, 
and Korean. The Administrator shall make each 
translation of the resource guide available on a pub-
licly accessible website of the Administration. 
‘‘(2) DISTRIBUTION.— 
‘‘(A) 
ADMINISTRATOR.—The 
Adminis-
trator shall distribute the resource guide re-
quired under subsection (a) to offices within the 
Administration, including district offices, and to 
the persons consulted under subsection (c). 
‘‘(B) OTHER
ENTITIES.—Women’s busi-
ness centers (as described under section 29), 
small business development centers, chapters of 
the Service Corps of Retired Executives (estab-
lished under section 8(b)(1)(B)), and Veteran 
Business Outreach Centers (as described under 
section 32) shall distribute to small business 
concerns operating as child care providers, sole 
proprietors operating as child care providers, 
and child care providers that have limited ad-
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ministrative capacity, as determined by the Ad-
ministrator— 
‘‘(i) the resource guide required under 
subsection (a); and 
‘‘(ii) other resources available that the 
Administrator determines to be relevant.’’. 
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