Respect Parents’ Childcare Choices Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 8
- Latest action
- Mar 24, 2025
What it does
The Respect Parents’ Childcare Choices Act would reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 with $14 billion in annual appropriations for fiscal years 2026 through 2031. It would expand parental choice by requiring states to provide child care certificates that can be used to pay relative caregivers—such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, or adult siblings—and would prohibit terminating assistance for newly married parents whose income rises due to marriage for at least six months. The bill also strengthens protections for religious child care providers, increases the share of funds directed via certificates to 90%, and mandates state reviews of regulations that may burden relative caregivers.
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