Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a business-incentive public-private partnership program of grants to businesses and consortia to: (1) pay start-up costs to provide child care services, or (2) provide additional child care services needed by the employees of such businesses. Requires nonprofit business organizations receiving such grants to provide technical information and assistance to enable businesses to provide such services.
Gives priority in grant selection to businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees.
[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5877 Introduced in House (IH)]
112th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 5877
To establish a program to provide child care through public-private
partnerships.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 31, 2012
Mrs. Lowey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and the Workforce
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A BILL
To establish a program to provide child care through public-private
partnerships.
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 ``Child Care Public-Private
Partnership Act of 2012''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF BUSINESS INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish a
program to make grants to--
(1) businesses and consortia--
(A) to pay start-up costs incurred to provide child
care services; or
(B) to provide additional child care services
needed by the employees of such businesses; and
(2) nonprofit business organizations to provide technical
information and assistance to enable businesses to provide
child care services.
SEC. 3. ELIGIBILITY TO RECEIVE GRANTS.
To be eligible to receive a grant under section 2, a business,
nonprofit business organization, or consortium shall submit to the
Secretary an application in accordance with section 4.
SEC. 4. APPLICATION.
The application required by section 3 shall be submitted by a
business, nonprofit business organization, or consortium at such time,
in such form, and containing such information as the Secretary may
require by rule, except that such application shall contain--
(1) an assurance that the applicant shall expend, for the
purpose for which such grant is made, an amount not less than
200 percent of the amount of such grant;
(2) an assurance that such applicant will expend such grant
for the use specified in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 2, as
the case may be;
(3) an assurance that such applicant will employ strategies
to ensure that child care services provided by such applicant,
or provided with the technical information and assistance made
available by such applicant, are provided at affordable rates,
and on an equitable basis, to low- and moderate-income
employees;
(4) an assurance that such applicant--
(A) in the case of a business or consortium, will
comply with all State and local licensing requirements
applicable to such business or consortium concerning
the provision of child care services; or
(B) in the case of a nonprofit business
organization, will employ procedures to ensure that
technical information and assistance provided under
this Act by such business organization will be provided
only to businesses that provide child care services in
compliance with all State and local licensing
requirements applicable to child care providers in such
State; and
(5) in the case of a business or consortium, an assurance
that if the employees of such applicant do not require all the
child care services for which such grant and the funds required
by paragraph (1) are to be expended by such applicant, the
excess of such child care services shall be made available to
families in the community in which such applicant is located.
SEC. 5. SELECTION OF GRANTEES.
For purposes of selecting applicants to receive grants under this
Act, the Secretary shall give priority to businesses that have fewer
than 100 full-time employees. To the extent practicable, the Secretary
shall--
(1) make grants equitably under this Act to applicants
located in all geographical regions of the United States; and
(2) give priority to applicants for grants under section
2(1).
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this Act:
(1) Business.--The term ``business'' means a person engaged
in commerce whose primary activity is not providing child care
services.
(2) Child care services.--The term ``child care services''
means care for a child that is--
(A) provided on the site at which a parent of such
child is employed or at a site nearby in the community;
and
(B) subsidized at least in part by the business
that employs such parent.
(3) Consortium.--The term ``consortium'' means 2 or more
businesses acting jointly. A consortium may also include a
nonprofit private organization.
(4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary
of Health and Human Services.
SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act
$25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2013 through 2015.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
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