Sec. 132003. Technical assistance
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Part A of title IV of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 601–619 ) is further amended by inserting after section 418B the following: The Secretary shall provide technical assistance to lead agencies to support the development and implementation of, and ongoing full participation in, State Child Care Information Networks provided for in section 418A(a)(4). The Secretary shall provide technical assistance— to child care small business owners, entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and child care infrastructure grant recipients, for the purpose of starting new licensed child care businesses, or re-opening a closed child care facility, in areas in which there is a child care shortage or that are at risk of having such a shortage; to State and local governments to incentivize public-private partnerships to identify excess buildings and land and conduct feasibility studies, for new or expanded child care options that could be available to child care entrepreneurs and infrastructure grantees, or used for publicly-run child care facilities; and to support child care business technical assistance, which may include strategies to support management training and shared services initiatives including provider networks such as child care center alliances and family child care home provider networks, as well as fundamental business support needs such as budgeting and fiscal management skills, business planning, understanding the cost of quality, and core best business practices such as recordkeeping and payment reconciliation.
The Secretary may provide technical assistance to States (and submit to the Congress reports on technical assistance activities) to increase child care availability and affordability, including by— providing technical assistance on best practices for conducting market rate surveys and establishing State reimbursement rates and price-per-child rates for child care for children who have not attained 13 years of age; increasing child care availability in tribal communities for families with children who have not attained 13 years of age; improving the effectiveness and affordability of child care assistance programs in meeting the needs of low-income parents; or collecting, managing, analyzing, and reporting child care administrative data, and use the data to support documentation of changes in child care availability and affordability.
The Secretary may carry out this section through means including the use of grants or cooperative agreements. Out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there is appropriated $17,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 to carry out this section. .
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Sec. 132003
Technical assistance
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