3.0.0 137 2022-11-01T14:17:31Z 2022-11-01T14:21:18Z Senate S 2019-01-16 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-01-16T16:10:39Z 2019-01-16 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2019-01-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH N G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2019-01-16 True K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2019-01-16 True S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI 2019-01-16 True Taxation Child care and development Employee benefits and pensions Income tax credits Income tax exclusion Teaching, teachers, curricula Taxation 00 2019-01-16 Introduced in Senate 2019-05-21T19:01:23Z Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2019

This bill expands the tax credits and exclusions that are available for child care expenses. The bill includes provisions that

  • increase the tax credit for employer-provided child care facilities;
  • increase the household and dependent care tax credit and make the credit refundable;
  • allow a new $2,000 annual tax credit for three years for child care providers who hold a bachelor's degree in early childhood education, child care, or a related degree and who provide at least 1,200 hours of child care services in a taxable year; and
  • increase the tax exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.
]]> Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2019 Display Title Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s137is/xml/BILLS-116s137is.xml 2019-01-16 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.