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      "date": "2005-01-03",
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      "title": "Child Care Reauthorization: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Child Care Provisions in H.R. 4, S. 880 (108th Congress), and Current Law",
      "summary": "The 108th Congress did not complete action to reauthorize child care legislation that expired at\nthe\nend of FY2002, but funding has continued via a series of temporary measures, and annual\nappropriations. \"Child care reauthorization\" is composed of two parts: legislation to reauthorize the\nChild Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act and legislation to extend mandatory\nfunding appropriated under Section 418 of the Social Security Act.\n In February 2003, the House passed a consolidated bill,  H.R. 4 , which\nencompassed both parts of reauthorization by including provisions that would have addressed\nmandatory appropriations, discretionary funding authorization levels, and other amendments to the\nCCDBG Act. The Senate Finance Committee reported its own version of H.R.  4, which\nincluded mandatory child care funding, and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\n(HELP) Committee reported a separate bill,  S. 880 , which included all provisions\npertaining to discretionary funding authorization, and amended the CCDBG Act itself. The full\nSenate began consideration of  H.R. 4  on March 29, 2004, passing one amendment to\nit (to increase child care funding), but then failed to resume consideration of the bill.\n Both versions of  H.R. 4  originally proposed to appropriate $2.917 billion in\nmandatory CCDBG funding for each of fiscal years 2004 through 2008, which would have reflected\nan increase of $1 billion over five years above current (FY2002) funding. (The amendment approved\non the Senate floor would have provided an additional $6 billion, on top of the $1 billion.) \nDiscretionary funding levels are  authorized  within the CCDBG Act, and both the House\nversion of\nH.R.  4 and  S. 880  proposed to authorize $2.3 billion in FY2004, rising up to\n$3.1 billion in FY2008. Also of note, H.R.  4 (House) would have allowed states to transfer up\nto 50% of their TANF block grants to the CCDBG (rather than current law's limit of 30%). \n Both  H.R. 4  (House) and  S. 880  would have revised and expanded\nthe CCDBG program goals to include and emphasize school readiness. Of the two bills, S.\n 880 provided the greater detail in terms of defining the skills and development to be\nfostered in efforts to prepare children for school. Both bills included provisions to increase the\nminimum quality set-aside from 4% to 6%, and to define \"quality activities\" in more detail.\n Both bills proposed to eliminate the federal eligibility ceiling (85% of state median income);\nand to place new requirements on state plans to emphasize coordination, consumer education, and\nprogram quality.  S. 880  would have also strengthened requirements (currently only in\nregulation) that states set provider payment rates in accordance with a recent market rate survey.\nOther provisions in  S. 880  included amending the list of data elements collected on a\nmonthly basis; enhancing security at federal child care facilities, and establishing a small business\nchild care grant program. This report provides a side-by-side comparison of the proposed bills, and\nwill not be updated.",
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