I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4283 
To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to 
require child care providers to provide to parents information regarding 
whether such providers carry current liability insurance. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 28, 2012 
Mr. BARROW 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 require child care providers to provide 
to parents information regarding whether such providers 
carry current liability insurance. 
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 ‘‘Anthony DeJuan 
Boatwright Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 
Section 658e(c)(2) of the Child Care and Develop-
ment Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(c)(2)) 
is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (E)(i) by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘The State shall include as part of its 
regulatory process for issuance and renewal of li-
censes to providers of child care services, a rec-
ommendation to each provider that it carry current 
liability insurance covering the operation of its child 
care business.’’, and 
(2) in subparagraph (F)— 
(A) in clause (ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end, 
(B) in clause (iii) by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon, 
(C) by inserting after clause (iii) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(iv) a requirement that each licensed 
child care provider— 
‘‘(I) post publicly and conspicu-
ously in the service area of its prem-
ises a notice specifying whether or not 
such provider carries current liability 
insurance covering the operation of its 
child care business; 
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‘‘(II) provide to parents of chil-
dren to whom it provides child care 
services a written notice stating 
whether or not such provider carries 
current liability insurance covering the 
operation of its child care business, 
including the amount of any such cov-
erage; 
‘‘(III) obtain the signature of at 
least 1 parent of each such child on 
such written notice acknowledging 
that such parent has received such no-
tice; and 
‘‘(IV) maintain such notice (or a 
copy of such notice) as signed by such 
parents (or a copy of the signed no-
tice) in such provider’s records during 
the period in which the child receives 
such services.’’, and 
(D) in the last sentence by inserting 
‘‘clauses (i), (ii), or (iii) of’’ after ‘‘Nothing in’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall 
take effect on October 1 of the 1st fiscal year that begins 
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more than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
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