1.This Act may be cited as the
Child Care Public-Private Partnership
Act of 2012
.
2.Establishment of
business incentive grant programThe Secretary of Health and Human Services
shall establish a program to make grants to—
(1)businesses and
consortia—
(A)to pay start-up
costs incurred to provide child care services; or
(B)to provide
additional child care services needed by the employees of such businesses;
and
(2)nonprofit business
organizations to provide technical information and assistance to enable
businesses to provide child care services.
3.Eligibility to
receive grantsTo be eligible
to receive a grant under section 2, a business, nonprofit business
organization, or consortium shall submit to the Secretary an application in
accordance with section 4.
4.The application required by section 3 shall
be submitted by a business, nonprofit business organization, or consortium 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 expend, for the purpose for which such grant is made, an
amount not less than 200 percent of the amount of such 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 provide child care
services in compliance with all State and local licensing requirements
applicable to child care providers in such State; 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.
5.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).
6.As used in this Act:
(1)The
term business means a person engaged in commerce whose primary
activity is not providing child care services.
(2)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)The
term consortium means 2 or more businesses acting jointly. A
consortium may also include a nonprofit private organization.
(4)The
term Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
7.Authorization of
appropriationsThere is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act $25,000,000 for each of the
fiscal years 2013 through 2015.