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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3304 
To establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the 
minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift 
work and nontraditional work hours of such officers, and to enhance 
recruitment and retention of such officers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 8, 2025 
Mr. PETERS (for himself, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. HARDER of California, and Mr. 
ISSA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and 
Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a grant pilot program to provide child care 
services for the minor children of law enforcement offi-
cers to accommodate the shift work and nontraditional 
work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment 
and retention of such officers. 
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 ‘‘Providing Child Care 
for Police Officers Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. CHILD CARE GRANT PROGRAM TO SUPPORT LAW 
ENFORCEMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary 
of the Administration for Children and Families, shall es-
tablish a program to award grants to lead agencies, on 
a competitive basis, to assist lead agencies in providing 
funds to encourage the establishment and operation of 
child care programs to provide child care services for the 
minor children of law enforcement officers during the shift 
work and nontraditional work hours of such officers. 
(b) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, a lead agency shall prepare and submit 
to the Secretary an application at such time, in such man-
ner, and containing such information as the Secretary may 
require, including an assurance that the funds required 
under subsection (f) will be provided. 
(c) PERIOD OF GRANT.—The Secretary shall award 
a grant under this section for a period of 3 years. 
(d) SET-ASIDE.—Of the amount appropriated to 
carry out this section for a fiscal year, not less than 20 
percent shall be used to award grants under this section 
to lead agencies to provide funds to— 
(1) a law enforcement agency that employs 
fewer than 200 full-time law enforcement officers; or 
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(2) a consortium comprised of law enforcement 
agencies, one of which employs fewer than 200 such 
officers. 
(e) USE OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—A lead agency shall use a 
grant awarded under this section to provide funds to 
covered entities located in the State, territory, or 
Tribal land of the lead agency to enable the covered 
entities to establish and operate child care programs 
(directly or by contract with child care providers). 
Such funds may be used by the covered entity or 
(through such a contract) child care provider to pro-
vide assistance that may include— 
(A) assistance for the startup costs related 
to a child care program; 
(B) assistance for the training of child care 
providers; 
(C) assistance for law enforcement agen-
cies to provide financial assistance for child 
care costs for families; 
(D) assistance for the provision of services 
to care for sick children or to provide care to 
children; 
(E) assistance through contracts entered 
into by law enforcement agencies with local 
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