Title: Childcare Expansion for Military Families Act of 2020
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Childcare Expansion for Military Families Act of 2020
This bill directs the Department of Defense to establish a program to carry out minor military construction projects to construct child development centers.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3867 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3867

To require the Secretary of Defense to establish a program to carry out 
  minor military construction projects to construct child development 
                                centers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 2, 2020

Ms. Sinema (for herself and Mr. Cramer) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Defense to establish a program to carry out 
  minor military construction projects to construct child development 
                                centers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Childcare Expansion for Military 
Families Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY PROGRAM TO USE MINOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORITY 
              FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS.

    (a) Program Authorized.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a 
program to carry out minor military construction projects under section 
2805 of title 10, United States Code, to construct child development 
centers.
    (b) Increased Maximum Amounts Applicable to Minor Construction 
Projects.--For the purpose of any military construction project carried 
out under the program under this section, the amount specified in 
section 2805(a)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is deemed to be 
$15,000,000.
    (c) Notification and Approval Requirements.--
            (1) In general.--The notification and approval requirements 
        under section 2805(b) of title 10, United States Code, shall 
        remain in effect for construction projects carried out under 
        the program under this section.
            (2) Procedures.--The Secretary shall establish procedures 
        for the review and approval of requests from the Secretaries of 
        military departments to carry out construction projects under 
        the program under this section.
    (d) Report Required.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
        submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the 
        program under this section.
            (2) Elements.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall 
        include a list and description of the construction projects 
        carried out under the program under this section, including the 
        location and cost of each project.
    (e) Expiration of Authority.--The authority to carry out a minor 
military construction project under the program under this section 
expires on September 30, 2022.
    (f) Construction of Authority.--Nothing in this section may be 
construed to limit any other authority provided by law for a military 
construction project at a child development center.
    (g) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Child development center.--The term ``child development 
        center'' includes a facility, and the utilities to support such 
        facility, the function of which is to support the daily care of 
        children aged six weeks old through 12 years old for full-day, 
        part-day, and hourly service.
            (2) Congressional defense committees.--The term 
        ``congressional defense committees'' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code.
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