Head Start Quality Assurance Act of 1990

Head Start Quality Assurance Act of 1990 - Amends the Head Start Act to require that a specified average minimum benefit amount per capita be expended annually to provide services to children who participate in Head Start programs. Specifies such minimum benefit amounts for FY 1991 through 1994 and succeeding fiscal years. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish procedures to ensure such annual average minimum expenditure per child.

 
HR 4391 IH
101st CONGRESS
2d Session
 H. R. 4391
To amend the Head Start Act to establish the average minimum amount per
capita that must be expended annually to provide services to children who
participate in Head Start programs.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 27, 1990
Mr. OLIN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Education and Labor
A BILL
To amend the Head Start Act to establish the average minimum amount per
capita that must be expended annually to provide services to children who
participate in Head Start programs.
  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 `Head Start Quality Assurance Act of 1990'.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION.
  Section 637 of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9832) is amended by adding
  at the end the following:
  `(4) The term `minimum benefit amount' means--
  `(A) $3200 for fiscal year 1991;
  `(B) $3500 for fiscal year 1992;
  `(C) $3800 for fiscal year 1993;
  `(D) $4000 for fiscal year 1994; and
  `(E) for each succeeding fiscal year, $4000 adjusted to reflect to percentage
  change in the Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers, issued by the
  Bureau of Labor Statistics, during the period beginning October 1, 1993,
  and ending immediately before October 1 of the fiscal year for which a
  determination is made under section 640(f).'.
SEC. 3. MINIMUM EXPENDITURE PER CHILD.
  Section 640 of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9835) is amended by adding
  at the end the following:
  `(f) The Secretary shall establish procedures to ensure that the average
  amount expended annually per capita to provide Head Start services to
  children who participate in Head Start programs is not less than the
  minimum benefit amount.'.
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
  This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall take effect on October
  1, 1990.