EPIC Act

Ensuring Protection In Childcare Act or the EPIC Act

This bill authorizes child care providers to use payments received through the Child Care and Development Fund for personal protective equipment, and other equipment, necessary to protect children in the provider's care and employees of the provider.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7726 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7726

   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 purchase personal protective 
  equipment, and other equipment, necessary to protect the health of 
             participating children and child care workers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2020

 Ms. Mucarsel-Powell 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 purchase personal protective 
  equipment, and other equipment, 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 ``Ensuring Protection In Childcare 
Act'' or the ``EPIC Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT TO PROTECT 
              THE HEALTH OF 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 purchase personal 
protective equipment, and other equipment, necessary to protect the 
health of children who receive such services and child care workers who 
provide such services.
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