[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5401 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5401

To amend title 41, United States Code, to require executive agencies to 
  give priority to entities with on-site child care for employees in 
          awarding certain contracts, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 22, 2018

 Mr. Krishnamoorthi (for himself, Ms. Lofgren, Ms. Norton, Mr. Johnson 
of Georgia, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Moore, Mr. Heck, Ms. Velazquez, and Ms. 
Wilson of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
            the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 41, United States Code, to require executive agencies to 
  give priority to entities with on-site child care for employees in 
          awarding certain contracts, 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 at Responsible Employers 
Act'' or the ``Child CARE Act''.

SEC. 2. PRIORITY TO ENTITIES WITH ON-SITE CHILD CARE FOR EMPLOYEES.

    (a) Priority to Entities With On-Site Child Care for Employees.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 63 of title 41, United States 
        Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        section:
``Sec. 6310. Priority to entities with on-site child care for employees
    ``(a) In General.--In awarding a contract for an amount exceeding 
$4,000,000, an executive agency shall give priority to any entity with 
on-site child care for the employees of the entity.
    ``(b) Relationship to Other Contracting Preferences.--In awarding a 
contract described in subsection (a), an executive agency may not give 
priority to an offer from an entity described in such subsection over 
an offer from a small business concern (as defined in section 3 of the 
Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632)).
    ``(c) Executive Agency Defined.--In this section, the term 
`executive agency' has the meaning given that term in section 102 of 
title 40.''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
        following new item:

``6310. Priority to entities with on-site child care for employees.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a)(1) shall 
apply with respect to contracts awarded on or after December 31, 2019.
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