I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5433 
To increase child care options for working families and support child care 
providers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 
Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts (for herself, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. SCOTT of Vir-
ginia, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. BOWMAN, Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. 
SHERRILL, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. BALINT, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. 
BROWN, Ms. BROWNLEY, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Ms. BUSH, Ms. CARAVEO, Mr. 
CARBAJAL, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms. 
CLARKE of New York, Mr. CONNOLLY, Ms. CRAIG, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. 
CUELLAR, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina, Ms. 
ESCOBAR, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. GRI-
JALVA, Mrs. HAYES, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. KIM of New 
Jersey, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. LANDSMAN, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. LOF-
GREN, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. MAGAZINER, Ms. MANNING, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. 
MCCLELLAN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MCGARVEY, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. 
MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. NADLER, Mr. 
NEAL, Mr. NORCROSS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PETERS, Ms. PETTERSEN, Ms. 
PINGREE, Mr. POCAN, Ms. PORTER, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. 
ROSS, Mr. SABLAN, Ms. SALINAS, Mr. SARBANES, Ms. SCANLON, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. 
TOKUDA, Mr. TONKO, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. TRONE, Mrs. WATSON COLE-
MAN, Ms. WEXTON, Ms. WILD, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Mr. CASTRO 
of Texas, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. CASTEN, Mr. MOULTON, Ms. 
ESHOO, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. ALLRED, Mr. RUIZ, 
Mrs. TORRES of California, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mrs. 
SYKES, Mr. KEATING, and Ms. STANSBURY) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations 
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A BILL 
To increase child care options for working families and 
support child care providers. 
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 Stabiliza-
tion Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CHILD CARE STABILIZATION GRANTS. 
(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are to 
make child care services more accessible for families and 
to support the stability and quality of child care providers 
by— 
(1) promoting the stability of the child care sec-
tor by providing a source of stable funding to eligible 
child care providers to help offset their operating ex-
penses; 
(2) supporting sustained and increased wages 
for early childhood educators or other staff of eligi-
ble child care providers, in order to stabilize and 
grow the child care workforce without increasing 
costs for families; 
(3) expanding the supply and capacity of eligi-
ble child care providers to ensure working families 
have a range of high-quality, affordable child care 
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options, in a variety of settings, that meet their 
unique needs; and 
(4) supporting access to child care services for 
communities facing a particular shortage of child 
care options, including child care services for infants 
and toddlers, child care services during nontradi-
tional or extended hours, child care services in rural 
communities, and inclusive child care services for 
children with disabilities. 
(b) APPROPRIATION.—In addition to amounts other-
wise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated to carry out the child 
care stabilization program established in section 2202 
(other than subsection (d)(2)(E) of that section) of the 
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (42 U.S.C. 9858 note) 
$16,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028. 
(c) ADMINISTRATION
AND
TECHNICAL
ASSIST-
ANCE.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
may reserve not more than 1 percent of the funding appro-
priated under subsection (b) for the costs of providing 
technical assistance, and for the administrative costs, to 
carry out that section 2202. 
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