Cutting Red Tape on Child Care Providers Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1889 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1889

 To require that States that receive a grant under the Child Care and 
 Development Block Grant Act of 1990, will not prohibit licensed child 
 care providers from performing simple food preparation of fruits and 
                              vegetables.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2025

 Ms. Perez (for herself, Ms. Foxx, Mrs. Kim, and Mr. Gray) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                             and Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require that States that receive a grant under the Child Care and 
 Development Block Grant Act of 1990, will not prohibit licensed child 
 care providers from performing simple food preparation of fruits and 
                              vegetables.

    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 ``Cutting Red Tape on Child Care 
Providers Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) Access to minimally processed fruits, vegetables, nuts 
        and seeds is crucial for the development and well-being of 
        children.
            (2) Licensed child care providers often face restrictions 
        on food preparation that limit their ability to serve fresh 
        fruits and vegetables.
             (3) Home and family based child care options, (estimated 
        to serve about \1/4\ of families), have seen steady declines 
        over the past decade. While this decreases child care choices 
        for all families, it disproportionately impacts low-income and 
        rural families and those requiring daycare at non-traditional 
        times because of shift work.
            (4) Complicated and burdensome regulations are more 
        challenging for home-based providers and are likely a part of 
        the reason these centers are declining.
            (5) Current regulations can make it easier to open a pre-
        packaged, often ultra-processed, snack than it is to, for 
        example, peel a banana. This undermines the ability of child 
        care providers to provide basic nutrition to our kids.
            (6) Simplifying regulations to encourage simple food 
        preparation of minimally processed agricultural products can 
        improve nutritional outcomes for children.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act and the amendment made by this Act, the 
term ``simple food preparation'' means the basic preparation of fruits 
and vegetables, including washing, peeling, cutting, and serving raw or 
minimally processed produce.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF BARRIERS UNDER THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT 
              BLOCK GRANT ACT OF 1990.

    Section 658E(c)(2)(F) of the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(2)(F)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
                            ``(iii) Prohibition of barriers.--The State 
                        shall not create any barriers on the simple 
                        preparation of fresh fruits and vegetables for 
                        facilities, licensed or licensed exempt.''.
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