119th Congress Families
S. 169: Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025
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Summary
Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide states and tribal entities with grants to increase access to licensed child care services.
The grants may be used to develop and expand the child care workforce or child care facilities in locations with insufficient available child care. Specifically, grants cover 50% of the cost of programs to support the education and training of caregivers or projects to build, expand, or renovate child care facilities in these areas.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Kirsten Gillibrand D-NYOriginal
- Angus King I-MEOriginal
- Jeff Merkley D-OROriginal
- Jeanne Shaheen D-NHOriginal
- Dan Sullivan R-AKOriginal
- Sheldon Whitehouse D-RIOriginal
- Tammy Duckworth D-IL
Who scored on this bill
- 1Amy Klobuchar SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced2 events+6
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History
- Introduced in the Senate by Amy Klobuchar.
Show the full action history (2 actions)
- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.


