Helping Child Care Providers Respond to the Coronavirus Public Health Emergency Act of 2020

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7720 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7720

   To permit child care providers that receive payment for services 
 provided under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 
 to use a portion of such payment to pay the cost of sanitization and 
   other costs associated with the COVID-19 public health emergency, 
  necessary to protect the health of participating children and child 
                             care workers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2020

Mr. Cisneros (for himself and Mr. Bacon) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To permit child care providers that receive payment for services 
 provided under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 
 to use a portion of such payment to pay the cost of sanitization and 
   other costs associated with the COVID-19 public health emergency, 
  necessary to protect the health of participating children and child 
                             care workers.

    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 ``Helping Child Care Providers Respond 
to the Coronavirus Public Health Emergency Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO PAY THE COST OF SANITIZATION AND OTHER COSTS 
              ASSOCIATED WITH THE COVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY TO 
              PROTECT CHILDREN WHO RECEIVE CERTAIN CHILD CARE SERVICES.

    A child care provider who receives payment for services provided 
under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
9857 et seq.) may use a portion of such payment to pay the cost of 
sanitization and other costs associated with the COVID-19 public health 
emergency, to protect children who receive such services and child care 
workers who provide such services.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``COVID-19 public health 
emergency'' means the public health emergency declared by the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with respect to 
COVID-19, including any renewal of the declaration.
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