[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 495 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 495

  To establish a program to provide child care through public-private 
                 partnerships, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 3, 1993

     Mr. Dodd (for himself, Mr. Reid, Mrs. Boxer, and Mrs. Murray) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                 Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To establish a program to provide child care through public-private 
                 partnerships, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Child Care Public-Private 
Partnership Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF BUSINESS INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM.

    The Secretary shall establish a program to make grants to--
            (1) businesses and consortia--
                    (A) to pay start-up costs incurred to provide child 
                care services needed by the employees of such 
                businesses; or
                    (B) to provide additional child care services 
                needed by the employees of such businesses, other than 
                services provided prior to the period for which the 
                grant is made; and
            (2) nonprofit business organizations to provide technical 
        information and assistance to enable businesses to provide 
        child care services.

SEC. 3. ELIGIBILITY TO RECEIVE GRANTS.

    To be eligible to receive a grant under section 2, a business, 
nonprofit business organization, or consortium shall submit an 
application to the Secretary in accordance with section 4.

SEC. 4. APPLICATION.

    In submitting an application referred to in section 3, a business, 
nonprofit business organization, or consortium shall submit the 
application at such time, in such form, and containing such information 
as the Secretary may require by rule, except that such application 
shall contain--
            (1) an assurance that the applicant shall make available, 
        with respect to the costs to be incurred by the applicant in 
        carrying out the activities for which such grant is made, non-
        Federal contributions in an amount equal to not less than $2 
        for every $1 of Federal funds provided under the grant;
            (2) an assurance that such applicant will expend such grant 
        for the use specified in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 2, as 
        the case may be;
            (3) an assurance that such applicant will employ strategies 
        to ensure that child care services provided by such applicant, 
        or provided with the technical information and assistance made 
        available by such applicant, are provided at affordable rates, 
        and on an equitable basis, to low- and moderate-income 
        employees;
            (4) an assurance that such applicant--
                    (A) in the case of a business or consortium, will 
                comply with all State and local licensing requirements 
                applicable to such business or consortium concerning 
                the provision of child care services; or
                    (B) in the case of a nonprofit business 
                organization, will employ procedures to ensure that 
                technical information and assistance provided under 
                this Act by such business organization will be provided 
                only to businesses that comply with the requirements 
                described in subparagraph (A); and
            (5) in the case of a business or consortium, an assurance 
        that if the employees of such applicant do not require all the 
        child care services for which such grant and the funds required 
        by paragraph (1) are to be expended by such applicant, the 
        excess of such child care services shall be made available to 
        families in the community in which such applicant is located.

SEC. 5. SELECTION OF GRANTEES.

    For purposes of selecting applicants to receive grants under this 
Act, the Secretary shall give priority to businesses that have fewer 
than 100 full-time employees. To the extent practicable, the Secretary 
shall--
            (1) make grants equitably under this Act to applicants 
        located in all geographical regions of the United States; and
            (2) give priority to applicants for grants under section 
        2(1).

SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act:
            (1) Business.--The term ``business'' means a person engaged 
        in commerce whose primary activity is not providing child care 
        services.
            (2) Child care services.--The term ``child care services'' 
        means care for a child that is--
                    (A) provided on the site at which a parent of such 
                child is employed or at a site nearby in the community; 
                and
                    (B) subsidized at least in part by the business 
                that employs such parent.
            (3) Consortium.--The term ``consortium'' means--
                    (A) two or more businesses acting jointly; or
                    (B) two or more businesses and a nonprofit private 
                organization, acting jointly.
            (4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Health and Human Services.

SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act 
$25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997.

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