H.R.6707 - Child Care and Resources Education Act of 2012
To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to authorize a national toll-free hotline and website, to develop and disseminate child care consumer education information for parents and to help parents access child care in their community, and for other purposes.
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To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to authorize a national toll-free hotline and website, to develop and disseminate child care consumer education information for parents and to help parents access child care in their community, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to authorize a national toll-free hotline and website, to develop and disseminate child care consumer education information for parents and to help parents access child care in their community, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(1) Nearly 11,000,000 children under age 5 are in some type of child care setting every week.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(2) Numerous reports have found that child care is hard to find in many communities throughout the United States.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(3) A 2010 study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development found children who received high-quality care in the first few years of life scored higher on measures of academic and cognitive achievement when the children were 15 years old, and were less likely to misbehave, than children enrolled in low-quality care in those years.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(4) More than 1,000,000 families a year receive assistance in finding child care through a national child care hotline and website, with nearly half the calls to the hotline coming from military families who are faced with deployment and need to find child care in their new community.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(5) The national child care hotline had 57,000,000 page views by parents looking for child care in their community as well as parents looking for information about selecting a child care provider.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(6) Over 200,000 publications were mailed to parents last year, in both English and Spanish, by the operator of the national hotline and website, to provide consumer education to parents looking for child care.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
SEC. 4. AMENDMENT.
Section 658O(a) of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858m) is amended by adding at the end the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(3) NATIONAL TOLL-FREE HOTLINE AND WEBSITE- The Secretary shall reserve not less than $1,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this subchapter for each fiscal year for the operation of a national toll-free hotline and website, to develop and disseminate child care consumer education information for parents and to help parents access safe, affordable, and quality child care in their community.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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U.S. Congress - Text of H.R.6707 as Introduced in House Child Care and Resources Education Act of 2012
