Child Care Availability and Affordability Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 28
- Latest action
- Mar 4, 2025
What it does
The Child Care Availability and Affordability Act would expand tax benefits for child care by increasing the employer-provided child care credit from 25% to 50% of qualified expenditures (with a higher cap of $500,000, or $600,000 for small businesses), raising the dependent care assistance exclusion from $5,000 to $7,500, and creating a new refundable household and dependent care credit of up to 50% of expenses (capped at $5,000–$8,000 depending on the number of qualifying individuals), phased out based on income. These changes would affect employers offering child care, employees using dependent care assistance, and individuals paying for household or dependent care services to enable…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
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What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.