[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4539 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4539

  To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to 
  provide market rate payments for child care services provided under 
                               such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 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 
  provide market rate payments for child care services provided under 
                               such Act.

    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 ``Fair Care for Kids Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Payment Rates Under State Plan.--Section 658E(c)(4)(A) of the 
Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
9858c(c)(4)(A)) is amended by striking ``sufficient'' and inserting 
``made at not less than applicable market rates''.
    (b) Definition of Market Rates.--Section 658P of the Child Care and 
Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858n) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (10), and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
            ``(9) Market Rates.--The term `market rates' means the 
        average rates paid for child care services provided in the 
        State, as determined by the State annually based on a valid 
        sample survey of actual rates charged in the State by all child 
        care providers licensed or registered (including child care 
        providers that do not provide child care services for which 
        assistance is provided under this subchapter) in the State (or 
        charged in separate substate areas in the State if the State 
        certifies to the Secretary that such average rates differ 
        significantly among such areas). Such survey shall sample 
        separately rates paid for child care services provided--
                    ``(A) by center-based child care providers, by 
                group home child care providers, by family child care 
                providers, and by other providers of child care 
                services for compensation; and
                    ``(B) to children less than 1 year of age, to 
                children not less than 1 year of age and not more than 
                2 years of age, to children more than 2 years of age 
                and less than the age of compulsory school attendance, 
                and to children not less than the age of compulsory 
                school attendance and not more than 13 years of age.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

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