I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1364 
To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 and 
the Head Start Act to promote child care and early learning, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 26, 2019 
Mr. SCOTT of Virginia (for himself, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. NADLER, Mr. 
SCHIFF, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. MCNERNEY, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. 
LUJA´N, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. POCAN, Mr. 
TAKANO, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. CRIST, Ms. MOORE, Ms. BLUNT ROCH-
ESTER, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. OMAR, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. 
GALLEGO, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. MENG, Ms. HAALAND, 
Mr. RYAN, Ms. NORTON, Mr. DESAULNIER, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. 
GOMEZ, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. VELA, 
Ms. HILL of California, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. HAS-
TINGS, Mr. VARGAS, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. SPEIER, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. KIL-
MER, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. QUIGLEY, 
Ms. FRANKEL, Mr. DEUTCH, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, 
Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York, Mr. WELCH, Mr. COHEN, 
Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. HECK, Ms. 
SCHRIER, Mrs. HAYES, Ms. WILD, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. BROWNLEY of Cali-
fornia, Mr. MOULTON, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. SERRANO, Ms. 
KUSTER of New Hampshire, Mr. MCEACHIN, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Ms. 
ESHOO, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. BEYER, 
Ms. ADAMS, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. BROWN of Maryland, Ms. 
DEGETTE, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mrs. 
CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. NAPOLI-
TANO, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mrs. TORRES of 
California, Mr. KENNEDY, Ms. SHALALA, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. GRIJALVA, 
Ms. DELAURO, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. COX of California, 
Mr. MORELLE, and Mr. BLUMENAUER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
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A BILL 
To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
Act of 1990 and the Head Start Act to promote child 
care and early learning, 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 for Work-
ing Families Act’’. 
TITLE I—CHILD CARE AND 
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE 
SEC. 101. PURPOSES. 
Section 658A(b) of the Child Care and Development 
Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9801 note) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(1) to ensure that no low- to moderate-income 
family pays more than 7 percent of its household in-
come on child care;’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(2) to support working parents in making 
their own decisions regarding the child care services 
that best suit their family’s needs;’’; 
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(3) in paragraph (4)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘high-quality,’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘high-quality and inclusive, and’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, including before- and 
after-school and summer care for school-age 
children,’’ after ‘‘services’’; 
(4) in paragraph (5), by inserting before the 
semicolon the following: ‘‘, and to help child care 
programs meet evidence-based or national standards 
to improve the quality of child care’’; 
(5) in paragraph (6)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘, including children with 
disabilities and infants and toddlers with dis-
abilities’’ before the semicolon; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(6) in paragraph (7)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘high-quality’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘high-quality and inclusive’’; and 
(B) by striking the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(7) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) to support statewide systems to support 
the needs of infants and toddlers with disabilities, 
better coordinate child care and other services, and 
assist States in increasing the number of child care 
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‘‘SEC. 658C. ESTABLISHMENT OF CHILD CARE PROGRAM. 
‘‘The Secretary is authorized to administer a child 
care program under which families in the State shall be 
provided an opportunity to obtain child care for eligible 
children, subject to the requirements of this subchapter.’’. 
SEC. 104. LEAD AGENCY. 
Section 658D of the Child Care and Development 
Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858b) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘a grant’’ and 
inserting ‘‘payments’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)(1)(A), by inserting before 
the semicolon the following: ‘‘, including by certi-
fying the eligibility of children’’. 
SEC. 105. APPLICATION AND PLAN. 
(a) PLAN REQUIREMENTS.—Section 658E(c) of the 
Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 9858c(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking the matter preceding 
clause (i) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(A) SUPPORTING
WORKING
PARENTS.— 
Support working parents by providing assur-
ances that—’’; and 
(ii) by striking clause (i)(II) and in-
serting the following: 
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‘‘(II) to enroll such child with a 
child care provider who has received a 
child care certificate from such parent 
or parents;’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (E)— 
(i) in clause (i)— 
(I) by striking subclause (II) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(II) the State’s tiered and 
transparent system for measuring the 
quality of child care providers, de-
scribed in subparagraph (W)(i), in-
cluding— 
‘‘(aa) a description of the 
national 
standards 
or 
other 
equally rigorous and evidence- 
based standards tied to child out-
comes that the State uses for 
purposes 
of 
subparagraph 
(W)(i)(II)(aa); 
‘‘(bb) the payment rates re-
ferred to in paragraph (4), for 
providers at each tier of such 
system; and 
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‘‘(cc) the number and per-
centage of eligible providers at 
each tier of such system, in total 
and disaggregated by geographic 
location;’’; 
(II) in subclause (IV), by insert-
ing ‘‘the program carried out under 
title II of the Child Care for Working 
Families Act,’’ after ‘‘9831 et seq.),’’; 
and 
(III) in subclause (VII), by strik-
ing ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(ii) in clause (ii), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; 
and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(iii) information about the State’s 
wage ladder described in subparagraph 
(G)(iii); and 
‘‘(iv) information on opportunities for 
staff of child care providers to improve 
their skills and credentials, including infor-
mation about training opportunities and 
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professional organizations that provide 
such training.’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (G)— 
(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘and pro-
fessional development requirements’’ and 
inserting ‘‘, professional development, and 
compensation requirements’’; 
(ii) in clause (ii)(V)— 
(I) by redesignating item (dd) as 
item (ee); 
(II) in item (cc), by striking 
‘‘and’’; and 
(III) by inserting after item (cc) 
the following: 
‘‘(dd) infants and toddlers 
with disabilities; and’’; 
(iii) by redesignating clauses (iii) and 
(iv) as clauses (v) and (vi), respectively; 
and 
(iv) by inserting after clause (ii) the 
following: 
‘‘(iii) 
COMPENSATION.—The 
plan 
shall provide a description of the State’s 
wage ladder for staff of eligible child care 
providers, and an assurance that wages for 
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such staff will, at a minimum, meet the re-
quirements of paragraph (4)(B)(iii)(II). 
‘‘(iv) STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT.— 
The plan shall demonstrate how the State 
will facilitate participation of staff of eligi-
ble child care providers in organizations 
that foster the professional development 
and stakeholder engagement of the child 
care workforce.’’; 
(D) in subparagraph (I)— 
(i) in clause (i)(XI), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(ii) in clause (ii), by striking the pe-
riod and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(iii) may include a requirement to 
comply with the standards recommended in 
the Department of Health and Human 
Services’ report entitled ‘Caring for Our 
Children Basics: Health and Safety Foun-
dations for Early Care and Education’, 
issued on June 25, 2015.’’; 
(E) in subparagraph (K)(i), in the matter 
preceding subclause (I), by striking ‘‘, not later 
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than 2 years after the date of enactment of the 
Child Care and Development Block Grant Act 
of 2014,’’; 
(F) in subparagraph (M)— 
(i) by adding ‘‘investment of quality 
child care amounts described in section 
658G(a)(1),’’ after ‘‘parents,’’; 
(ii) by redesignating clause (iv) as 
clause (v); 
(iii) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘, as 
defined by the State; and’’ and inserting a 
semicolon; and 
(iv) by inserting after clause (iii) the 
following: 
‘‘(iv) infants and toddlers with disabil-
ities; and’’; 
(G) in subparagraph (N)— 
(i) in clause (i)(I), by striking ‘‘, if 
that family income does not exceed 85 per-
cent of the State median income for a fam-
ily of the same size’’; 
(ii) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘(espe-
cially parents in families receiving assist-
ance under the program of block grants to 
States for temporary assistance for needy 
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families under part A of title IV of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et 
seq.))’’; and 
(iii) by striking clause (iv); 
(H) in subparagraph (O)— 
(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘with pro-
grams operating’’ and all that follows and 
inserting ‘‘with programs, operating at the 
Federal, State, and local levels for chil-
dren, that are— 
‘‘(I) preschool programs, pro-
grams funded under title II of the 
Child Care for Working Families Act, 
programs funded under section 657C 
of the Head Start Act, tribal early 
childhood programs, and other early 
childhood programs, including those 
serving infants and toddlers with dis-
abilities; 
‘‘(II) programs serving homeless 
children and children in foster care; 
and 
‘‘(III) programs funded under 
the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.).’’; 
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(ii) by striking clause (ii); and 
(iii) by redesignating clause (iii) as 
clause (ii); 
(I) in subparagraph (Q)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘LOW-INCOME
POPU-
LATIONS’’ and inserting ‘‘CHILDREN
IN 
UNDERSERVED
AREAS, CHILDREN
WITH 
DISABILITIES, AND
INFANTS
AND
TOD-
DLERS WITH DISABILITIES’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘high-quality’’ and in-
serting ‘‘high-quality and inclusive’’; and 
(iii) by inserting before the period the 
following: ‘‘and to children with disabilities 
and infants and toddlers with disabilities’’; 
(J) by striking subparagraph (S) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(S) PROHIBITION ON SUSPENSIONS, EX-
PULSIONS, AND AVERSIVE BEHAVIORAL INTER-
VENTIONS.—The State plan shall provide an as-
surance that the State will provide assistance to 
carry out this subchapter only to eligible child 
care providers that prohibit— 
‘‘(i) the use of suspension and expul-
sion of children; and 
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‘‘(ii) the use of aversive behavioral 
interventions.’’; 
(K) in subparagraph (T)— 
(i) in clause (i)— 
(I) in the matter preceding sub-
clause (I), by striking ‘‘(or develop 
such guidelines if the State does not 
have such guidelines as of the date of 
enactment of the Child Care and De-
velopment Block Grant Act of 2014)’’; 
and 
(II) in subclause (I), by striking 
‘‘research-based’’ and inserting ‘‘evi-
dence-based’’; and 
(ii) in clause (iv)— 
(I) by striking subclauses (II) 
and (III); 
(II) by striking ‘‘Federal Govern-
ment’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘mandate’’ and inserting ‘‘Federal 
Government to mandate’’; and 
(III) by striking ‘‘section;’’ and 
inserting ‘‘section.’’; 
(L) in subparagraph (U)— 
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(i) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘the 
State’s lead agency established or des-
ignated under section 635(a)(10) of the In-
dividuals with Disabilities Education Act 
(20 U.S.C. 1435(a)(10)),’’ after ‘‘the State 
resource and referral system,’’; and 
(ii) in clause (iii)(I), by inserting ‘‘in-
fants and toddlers with disabilities,’’ after 
‘‘children with disabilities,’’; and 
(M) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(W) TIERED AND TRANSPARENT SYSTEM 
FOR MEASURING THE QUALITY OF CHILD CARE 
PROVIDERS.—The State plan shall describe how 
the State will develop or revise with input from 
child care providers, from families, and from or-
ganizations representing child care directors, 
teachers, and other staff, within 3 years after 
the date of submission of the State application, 
systems for measuring the quality of eligible 
child care providers who provide services for 
which assistance is made available under this 
subchapter, that consist of— 
‘‘(i) a tiered and transparent system 
for measuring the quality of eligible child 
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care providers who serve eligible children, 
that— 
‘‘(I) applies to eligible child care 
providers (except providers of family, 
friend, or neighbor care that elect to 
be covered under clause (ii)); 
‘‘(II) includes a set of standards, 
for determining the tier of quality of 
a child care provider, that— 
‘‘(aa) uses the degree to 
which the provider meets national 
standards (which may be Head 
Start 
program 
performance 
standards described in section 
641A(a) of the Head Start Act 
(42 U.S.C. 9836a(a)) or stand-
ards for national accreditation of 
early learning programs) or other 
equally rigorous and evidence- 
based standards that are tied to 
child outcomes; and 
‘‘(bb) 
includes 
indicators 
that are appropriate for different 
types of providers, including child 
care centers and family child care 
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