Title: Child Care Funds Accountability Act
Policy area: Families

Summary:
Child Care Funds Accountability Act
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to monitor and report on compliance with the use of funds for the child care stabilization grants and the Child Care and Development Block Grant program provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3615 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3615

   To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to monitor 
 compliance with the requirements of the American Rescue Plan relating 
                  to the uses of funds for child care.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 28, 2021

    Mrs. Miller-Meeks (for herself and Mr. Buchanan) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                                 Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to monitor 
 compliance with the requirements of the American Rescue Plan relating 
                  to the uses of funds for child care.

    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 ``Child Care Funds Accountability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE AMERICAN 
              RESCUE PLAN ACT RELATING TO THE USES OF FUNDS FOR CHILD 
              CARE STABILIZATION GRANTS AND THE CHILD CARE AND 
              DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 2201 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 
117-2; March 11, 2021) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Monitoring Compliance.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall dedicate such 
        portion of the amounts made available by subsection (b) for 
        Federal administrative costs in carrying out this section as 
        the Secretary determines necessary to monitor compliance with 
        the requirements relating to all uses of funds made available 
        under section 2202 for stabilization grants and under this 
        section for the child care and development block grant program 
        to ensure the integrity of the program, including--
                    ``(A) compliance with the requirements under 
                subsection (c) and under section 2202(f), and
                    ``(B) to ensure that there is no duplication with 
                loans under the Paycheck Protection Program received by 
                child care providers.
            ``(2) Report to congress.--Not later than January 1, 2026, 
        the Secretary shall make publicly available and provide to the 
        Committee on Finance and the Committee on Health, Education, 
        Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, and the Committee on 
        Education and Labor and the Committee on Ways and Means of the 
        House of Representatives a report summarizing the findings of 
        compliance reviews under this section.''.
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