Children’s Mental Health Care Access Act of 2020

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7776 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7776

   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 mental health supports 
  necessary to protect the health of participating children and child 
                             care workers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2020

Ms. Kendra S. Horn of Oklahoma 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 mental health supports 
  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 ``Children's Mental Health Care Access 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS 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 purchase mental 
health supports necessary to protect the health of children who receive 
such services and child care workers who provide such services.
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