‘‘(1) enter into a contractual relationship with 
a center-based or family child care provider to raise 
the quality of such provider’s programs so that the 
provider meets the program performance standards 
described in subsection (a) through activities that 
may include— 
‘‘(A) expanding the center-based or family 
child care provider’s programs through financial 
support; 
‘‘(B) providing training, technical assist-
ance, and support to the provider in order to 
help the provider meet the program perform-
ance standards, which may include supporting 
program and partner staff in earning a child 
development associate credential, associate’s de-
gree, or baccalaureate degree in early childhood 
education or a closely related field for working 
with infants and toddlers; and 
‘‘(C) blending funds received under the 
Child Care and Development Block Grant of 
1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858 et seq.) and the Early 
Head Start program carried out under section 
645A in order to provide high-quality child 
care, for a full day, that meets the program 
performance standards; 
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‘‘(2) develop and implement a proposal to re-
cruit and enter into the contract with a center-based 
or family child care provider, particularly a provider 
that serves children who receive assistance under the 
Child Care and Development Block Grant of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 9858 et seq.); 
‘‘(3) create a clear and realizable timeline to in-
crease the quality and capacity of a center-based or 
family child care provider so that the provider meets 
the program performance standards described in 
subsection (a); and 
‘‘(4) align activities and services provided 
through funding under this section with the Head 
Start Child Outcomes Framework. 
‘‘(e) STANDARDS.—Prior to awarding grants under 
this section, the Secretary shall establish standards to en-
sure that the responsibility and expectations of the Early 
Head Start Agency and the partner child care providers 
are clearly defined. 
‘‘(f) DESIGNATION RENEWAL.—A partner child care 
provider that receives assistance through a grant provided 
under this section shall be exempt, for a period of 18 
months, from the designation renewal requirements under 
section 641(c). 
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‘‘(g) SURVEY OF EARLY HEAD START AGENCIES AND 
REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Within one year of the effective 
date of this section, the Secretary shall conduct a survey 
of Early Head Start agencies to determine the extent of 
barriers to entering into Early Learning Quality Partner-
ship agreements on Early Head Start agencies and on 
child care providers, and submit this information, with 
suggested steps to overcome such barriers, in a report to 
the Committee on Education and Workforce of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Edu-
cation, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, including a de-
tailed description of the degree to which Early Head Start 
agencies are utilizing the funds provided. 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(1) $1,430,376,000 for fiscal year 2014; and 
‘‘(2) such sums as may be necessary for each 
of fiscal years 2015 through 2023.’’. 
TITLE III—CHILD CARE 
SEC. 301. STATE PLAN. 
(a) COORDINATION; MINIMUM ELIGIBILITY; SUPPLE-
MENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Section 658E(c)(2) of the Child 
Care and Development Block Grant of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
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9858c(c)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(I) COORDINATION
WITH
OTHER
FED-
ERAL BLOCK GRANTS.—Certify that the State 
will develop and implement a process, not later 
than 3 years after the date of enactment of the 
Strong Start for America’s Children Act of 
2013, to ensure that the funding such State re-
ceives under the program of block grants for so-
cial services provided under subtitle A of title 
XX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397 
et seq.) and the Community Services Block 
Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9901 et seq.) that is used 
for child care services is subject to the require-
ments and limitations of this subchapter. 
‘‘(J) MINIMUM ELIGIBILITY.—Demonstrate 
that each child that receives assistance in ac-
cordance with this subchapter in the State will 
receive such assistance for not less than 12 
months (regardless of a change in family in-
come for the child’s family, if family income 
does not exceed 85 percent of the State median 
income for a family of the same size) before the 
State redetermines the eligibility of the child 
under this subchapter. 
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‘‘(K) SUPPLEMENTING
AND
NOT
SUP-
PLANTING CHILD CARE FUNDS.—Provide an as-
surance that funds received by the State to 
carry out this subchapter shall be used to sup-
plement and not supplant other Federal, State, 
and local public funds for child care services 
and activities.’’. 
(b) ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE
THE QUALITY
OF 
CHILD CARE.—Section 658G of the Child Care and Devel-
opment Block Grant of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858e) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking ‘‘A State’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) IN 
GENERAL.—A State’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) FORMULA GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For fiscal years for which 
the amount appropriated to carry out this sub-
chapter exceeds $2,400,000,000, the Secretary may 
reserve not less than $100,000,000 for formula 
grants to States, Indian tribes, and tribal organiza-
tions to improve the quality of child care programs 
and services. Such funds may be used to— 
‘‘(A) support training, education, and 
other professional development activities for 
child care staff, which may include coaching, 
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mentoring, and other on-site training and tech-
nical assistance; 
‘‘(B) provide technical assistance to help 
providers become licensed and comply with ap-
plicable licensing and regulatory requirements; 
‘‘(C) provide incentives for the child care 
workforce linked to increased credential or de-
gree completion or the activities described in 
subparagraph (A); 
‘‘(D) help programs meet applicable health 
and safety standards; and 
‘‘(E) provide technical assistance to help 
providers implement nutrition, physical activity, 
or obesity prevention programs. 
‘‘(2) COORDINATION.—A State, Indian tribe, or 
tribal organization that receives a grant under this 
section shall coordinate with a State Advisory Coun-
cil on Early Childhood Education and Care in co-
ordinating activities carried out under this sub-
section with other quality-related activities directed 
toward child care programs. 
‘‘(3) PRIORITY TO HIGH POVERTY AREAS.—A 
State, Indian tribe, or tribal organization that re-
ceives a grant under this section shall provide assur-
ances that such grant funds will be prioritized— 
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‘‘(A) to areas with significant concentra-
tions of poverty and unemployment and that 
lack access to high-quality child care, including 
high-quality early childhood education pro-
grams; or 
‘‘(B) for otherwise underserved popu-
lations, such as children with disabilities (as de-
fined in section 602 of the Individuals with Dis-
abilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1401)), 
homeless children, and children who are dual 
language learners (as such term is defined in 
section 112 of the Strong Start for America’s 
Children Act of 2013).’’. 
(c) DEMONSTRATION AND PILOT PROJECTS.—Sec-
tion 658I of the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858g) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(c) DEMONSTRATION AND PILOT PROJECTS.—The 
Secretary may, through grants or contracts, carry out 
demonstration and pilot projects that are consistent with 
the purposes of this subchapter and are designed to de-
velop and implement strategies and practices useful in 
supporting the needs of low-income families in-need of, or 
receiving, child care services. Such projects shall— 
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‘‘(1) include the provision of direct services to 
individuals; 
‘‘(2) be subject to measures of performance 
based on indicators developed and prescribed by the 
Secretary in consultation with— 
‘‘(A) individuals and organizations cur-
rently administering programs that receive sup-
port under this subchapter; 
‘‘(B) individuals of other relevant Federal 
agencies and departments; and 
‘‘(C) individuals in relevant academic dis-
ciplines; and 
‘‘(3) include an evaluation component.’’. 
SEC. 302. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Section 658B of the Child Care and Development 
Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 658B. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subchapter— 
‘‘(1) $2,478,313,000 for fiscal year 2014; and 
‘‘(2) such sums as may be necessary for each 
of fiscal years 2015 through 2023.’’. 
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TITLE IV—MATERNAL, INFANT, 
AND 
EARLY 
CHILDHOOD 
HOME VISITING PROGRAM 
SEC. 401. SENSE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) from the prenatal period to the first day of 
kindergarten, children’s development rapidly pro-
gresses at a pace exceeding that of any subsequent 
stage of life; 
(2) as reported by the National Academy of 
Sciences in 2001, striking disparities exist in what 
children know and can do that are evident well be-
fore they enter kindergarten; these differences are 
strongly associated with social and economic cir-
cumstances, and they are predictive of subsequent 
academic performance; 
(3) research has consistently demonstrated that 
investments in high-quality programs that serve in-
fants and toddlers better positions those children for 
success in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary 
education as well as helping children develop the 
critical physical, emotional, social, and cognitive 
skills that they will need for the rest of their lives; 
(4) in 2011, there were 11,000,000 infants and 
toddlers living in the United States and 49 percent 
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of these children came from low-income families liv-
ing with incomes at or below 200 percent of the 
Federal poverty guidelines; 
(5) the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood 
Home Visiting (MIECHV) program was authorized 
by Congress to facilitate collaboration and partner-
ship at the Federal, State, and community levels to 
improve health and development outcomes for at-risk 
children, including those from low-income families, 
through evidence-based home visiting programs; 
(6) MIECHV is an evidence-based policy initia-
tive and its authorizing legislation requires that at 
least 75 percent of funds dedicated to the program 
must support programs to implement evidence-based 
home visiting models, which includes the home-based 
model of Early Head Start; and 
(7) Congress should continue to provide re-
sources to MIECHV to support the work of States 
to help at-risk families voluntarily receive home vis-
its from nurses and social workers to— 
(A) promote maternal, infant, and child 
health; 
(B) improve school readiness and achieve-
ment; 
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