3.0.0 3620 2019-11-15T21:59:22Z 2019-11-15T21:59:22Z Senate S S 2008-09-26 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-09-26T19:54:30Z 2008-09-26 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2008-09-26 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9685) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-09-26 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000035 Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] BLANCHE LINCOLN D AR LAMBERT N S001142 Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] GORDON SMITH R OR H. 2008-09-26 True P000590 Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] Mark Pryor D AR Lunsford 2008-09-26 True Social Welfare Aid to dependent children Appropriations Cash welfare block grants Day care Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Employee training Families Government Operations and Politics Group homes Housing and Community Development Infants Labor and Employment Preschool education Teacher education Social Welfare 00 2008-09-26 Introduced in Senate 2008-11-28T16:17:16Z Child Care Investment Act of 2008 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) of title IV of the Social Security Act to increase appropriations for child care assistance grants for FY2009-FY2014.

Makes appropriations for FY2009-FY2014 for grants to states to establish: (1) a Quality Rating and Improvement System (or maintain such a system) for center-based child care providers, group home child care providers, family child care providers, and other early childhood education providers; (2) a statewide network of infant and toddler specialists to train such providers; (3) standards that require at least 40 hours of appropriate health, safety, and child development training for an individual before employment with or as a licensed or registered child care provider; and (4) requirements that licensed or registered providers are visited by monitoring staff at least twice a year.

Requires the use of such appropriations also to pay reimbursement rates at or above the 75th percentile of market rates for providers of child care services assisted under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990.

]]> Child Care Investment Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Child Care Investment Act of 2008 Display Title Child Care Investment Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Social Security Act to enable States to carry out quality initiatives, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2008-09-26T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3620is/xml/BILLS-110s3620is.xml 2008-09-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.