3.0.0 2323 2026-04-08T15:25:13Z 2026-04-08T15:25:13Z Senate S S 2025-07-17 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2323 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Hearings By (full committee) 2026-03-19T14:00:36Z Referred To 2025-07-17T16:24:02Z HEADWAY Act 119 336 HR 2025-01-13 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. Identical bill CRS 2026-03-19 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Committee 2025-07-17 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2025-07-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000790 Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA] Raphael Warnock D GA N C001047 Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] Shelley Capito R WV Moore 2025-07-17 True L000570 Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] Ben Luján D NM R. 2025-10-27 False S001198 Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] Dan Sullivan R AK 2025-10-27 False Education Preschool education 2026-03-20T14:33:39Z Teaching, teachers, curricula 2026-03-20T14:33:39Z Vocational and technical education 2026-03-20T14:33:39Z Education 2025-09-05T16:11:42Z 00 2025-07-17 Introduced in Senate 2026-04-08T15:25:00Z Head start Education And Development Workforce Advancement and Yield Act or the HEADWAY Act

This bill allows some teachers in Early Head Start programs to teach while in the process of earning their Child Development Associate (CDA) credential and completing training.

Currently, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must ensure that all teachers providing direct services to children and families in Early Head Start centers (1) have a minimum of a CDA credential and have been trained in early childhood development, and (2) have been trained in early childhood development with a focus on infant and toddler development.

The bill revises this requirement by requiring at least one teacher per classroom (instead of all teachers) to have a CDA credential and training. In particular, the bill requires HHS to ensure that (1) each additional teacher providing direct services to children and families is in the process of earning a CDA credential and completing training, and (2) the Early Head Start agency provides a mentor to oversee the progress and guide the work of a teacher who is in the process of earning a CDA credential and completing training.

]]> HEADWAY Act Display Title 45 HEADWAY Act 2026-03-20T11:03:18Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 HEADWAY Act 2025-08-01T03:53:17Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Head start Education And Development Workforce Advancement and Yield Act 2025-08-01T03:53:17Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Head Start Act to permit some teachers in Early Head Start programs to teach while earning a child development associate credential. 2025-08-01T03:48:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-07-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s2323is/xml/BILLS-119s2323is.xml 2026-03-19 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. 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.