[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4164 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4164

  To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to 
  increase the amount of funds allocated to activities to improve the 
    quality of child care and to require that some of the funds so 
  allocated be available to pay costs incurred by eligible child care 
     providers to obtain accreditation from nationally recognized 
                             organizations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2002

  Mrs. Wilson of New Mexico introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to 
  increase the amount of funds allocated to activities to improve the 
    quality of child care and to require that some of the funds so 
  allocated be available to pay costs incurred by eligible child care 
     providers to obtain accreditation from nationally recognized 
                             organizations.

    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 ``Quality Child Care Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 658g of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 
1990 (42 U.S.C. 6858e) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``4 percent'' and inserting ``8 percent'', 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
``Not less than 50 percent of the funds required to be used under this 
section shall be used to provide financial assistance to eligible child 
care providers to carry out any activities involved in the process of 
obtaining accreditation from a nationally recognized organization that 
provides accreditation to child care providers.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
the 1st day of the 1st fiscal year that begins after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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