[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 42 (Friday, March 5, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1333]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1156. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 891 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. 
Murray, Mr. Brown, Mr. Peters, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Stabenow, 
Mr. Tester, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Carper, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. 
Sanders) to the bill H.R. 1319, to provide for reconciliation pursuant 
to title II of S. Con. Res. 5; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       In section 2202(d)(1), insert at the end the following:
       (B) Rural initiatives.--A lead agency for a State that 
     receives a child care stabilization grant pursuant to 
     subsection (c) shall reserve not more than 5 percent of such 
     grant funds for rural child care initiatives. The reserved 
     funds may be used, notwithstanding any other provision of 
     this section, for supporting startup costs for new eligible 
     child care providers in rural communities, supporting family 
     child care providers in rural communities to increase 
     capacity, extending hours of eligible child care providers to 
     offer care during nontraditional hours in rural communities, 
     partnering with businesses in rural communities to develop 
     child care options for the children of their employees, and 
     recruiting new eligible child care providers to serve rural 
     communities.
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