I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6707 
To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to 
authorize a national toll-free hotline and website, to develop and dissemi-
nate child care consumer education information for parents and to help 
parents access child care in their community, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 27, 2012 
Ms. RICHARDSON 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 authorize a national toll-free hotline and 
website, to develop and disseminate child care consumer 
education information for parents and to help parents 
access child care in their community, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 and Re-
sources Education Act of 2012’’. 
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SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purposes of this Act are— 
(1) to develop and disseminate child care con-
sumer education information for parents; and 
(2) to assist parents in finding safe, affordable, 
and quality child care in their community. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Nearly 11,000,000 children under age 5 are 
in some type of child care setting every week. 
(2) Numerous reports have found that child 
care is hard to find in many communities through-
out the United States. 
(3) A 2010 study by the National Institute of 
Child Health and Human Development found chil-
dren who received high-quality care in the first few 
years of life scored higher on measures of academic 
and cognitive achievement when the children were 15 
years old, and were less likely to misbehave, than 
children enrolled in low-quality care in those years. 
(4) More than 1,000,000 families a year receive 
assistance in finding child care through a national 
child care hotline and website, with nearly half the 
calls to the hotline coming from military families 
who are faced with deployment and need to find 
child care in their new community. 
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(5) The national child care hotline had 
57,000,000 page views by parents looking for child 
care in their community as well as parents looking 
for information about selecting a child care provider. 
(6) Over 200,000 publications were mailed to 
parents last year, in both English and Spanish, by 
the operator of the national hotline and website, to 
provide consumer education to parents looking for 
child care. 
SEC. 4. AMENDMENT. 
Section 658O(a) of the Child Care and Development 
Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858m) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) NATIONAL
TOLL-FREE
HOTLINE
AND 
WEBSITE.—The Secretary shall reserve not less than 
$1,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this 
subchapter for each fiscal year for the operation of 
a national toll-free hotline and website, to develop 
and disseminate child care consumer education in-
formation for parents and to help parents access 
safe, affordable, and quality child care in their com-
munity.’’. 
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