[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2552 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2552

 To promote the health and safety of children by requiring the posting 
    of Consumer Product Safety Commission child care center safety 
standards in child care centers and by requiring that the Secretary of 
 Health and Human Services report to Congress with recommendations to 
                promote compliance with such standards.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 1999

 Mr. Nadler (for himself, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
   DeLauro, Mr. Frost, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Hinchey, Ms. Kilpatrick, Mr. 
   Lantos, Mr. Meehan, Mrs. Meek of Florida, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. 
   Weiner) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the 
 Committee on Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To promote the health and safety of children by requiring the posting 
    of Consumer Product Safety Commission child care center safety 
standards in child care centers and by requiring that the Secretary of 
 Health and Human Services report to Congress with recommendations to 
                promote compliance with such standards.

    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 Safety Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) A study conducted by the Consumer Product Safety 
        Commission in October and November of 1998, found that \2/3\ of 
        the child care settings studied exhibited at least 1 of the 
        Commission's targeted safety hazards.
            (2) The Consumer Product Safety Commission is aware of at 
        least 56 children who have died in child care settings since 
        1990.
            (3) In 1997, approximately 31,000 children, ages 4 years 
        and younger, were treated in hospital emergency rooms after 
        being injured in child care or school settings.

SEC. 3. POSTING OF CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION STANDARDS 
              REQUIRED.

    Section 658S of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 
1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858q) is amended--
    (1) by striking ``Notwithstanding'' and inserting the following:
    ``(a) Treatment of Certain Funds as Income.--Notwithstanding''; and
    (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Consumer Product Safety Commission Standards.--
            ``(1) Secretary required to provide standards.--As soon as 
        practicable after the date of the enactment of the Child Care 
        Center Safety Act of 1999, and with each distribution of funds 
        under this Act, the Secretary shall provide a copy of the 
        Consumer Product Safety Commission child care center safety 
        standards to each eligible child care provider receiving funds 
        under this Act.
            ``(2) Standards required to be posted.--An eligible child 
        care provider receiving funds under this Act shall post a copy 
        of the standards provided under paragraph (1) in the child care 
        facility in a location where the standards can be easily read 
        by employees, parents, and other interested parties.
            ``(3) Format of standards.--The Secretary, in consultation 
        with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, shall develop a 
        format for the standards required to be provided under 
        paragraph (1).''.

SEC. 4. REPORT.

    Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall report to 
Congress with recommendations for incentives, penalties, or other 
methods for encouraging eligible child care providers receiving funds 
under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990, to comply 
with Consumer Product Safety Commission child care center safety 
standards.
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