Sec. 576. Military child care and child development center matters
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Section 1793 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsections: The regulations prescribed pursuant to subsection
(a)shall require that installation commanders issue waivers of fees otherwise established under the regulations for inability to pay (commonly referred to as hardship waivers ) on a liberal basis in a manner consistent (as specified by the Secretary in such regulations) with ensuring that fees collected pursuant to subsection
(a)meet the operating expenses of the child development centers concerned. In the case of a family with two or more children attending a child development center, the regulations prescribed pursuant to subsection
(a)shall require that installations commanders charge a fee for attendance at the center of any child of the family after the first child of the family in amount equal to 85 percent of the amount of the fee otherwise chargeable for the attendance of such child at the center. . Each Secretary of a military department may carry out a program for each Armed Force under the jurisdiction of such Secretary under which a member of the Armed Forces who is obtaining child care services from a civilian child care services provider located off a military installation is paid (subject to any limitation established by such Secretary) a monthly amount equal to the amount, if any, by which— the monthly amount charged by such provider for such services; exceeds the monthly amount the military department concerned pays or otherwise provides members at such installation for child care services on such installation. Any program carried out pursuant to paragraph
(1)shall be modeled after the Army Fee Assistance Program, and incorporate such modifications to that Program as the Secretary of the military department concerned considers appropriate. Any program of an Armed Force under paragraph
(1)shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense. Section 1792 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— by redesignating subsection
(d)as subsection (e); and by inserting after subsection
(c)the following new subsection (d): Each Secretary of a military department may, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, take actions in addition to actions authorized by subsection
(c)to provide military child development centers under the jurisdiction of such Secretary with a qualified and stable civilian workforce, including actions as follows: Enhanced marketing and recruitment for employment. Provision to employees of education-related benefits, including tuition assistance and student loan repayment programs. Availability and enhancement of wellness and physical fitness programs for employees. Provision of such other competitive benefits as the Secretary of the military department and the Secretary of Defense jointly consider appropriate. . Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, each Secretary of a military department shall submit to Congress a report on the military installations under the jurisdiction of such Secretary with an extreme imbalance between demand for child care and availability of child care. Each report shall include, for the military department covered by such report, the following: The name of the five installations of the military department experiencing the most extreme imbalance between demand for child care and availability of child care. For each installation named pursuant to subparagraph (A), the following: An assessment whether civilian employees at child development centers at such installation have rates of pay and benefits that are competitive with other civilian employees on such installation and with the civilian labor pool in the vicinity of such installation. A description and assessment of various incentives to encourage military spouses to become providers under the Family Child Care program at such installation. Such recommendations at the Secretary of the military department concerned considers appropriate to address the imbalance between demand for child care and availability of child care at such installation, including recommendations to enhance the competitiveness of civilian child care positions at such installation with other civilian positions at such installation and the civilian labor pool in the vicinity of such installation.