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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · S. 2296 (Engrossed in Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 556

Sec. 556. Support for expanding early child care options for members of the Armed Forces and their families

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The Secretary of Defense may— direct the Secretaries of the military departments— to identify gaps between existing early child care needs and available eligible child care providers; to use resources of the Department of Defense to support eligible child care providers in recruitment and retention of employees, including through professional development and financial incentives for such employees; and to seek to enter into an interagency partnership with a Federal agency with the ability to place national service participants and volunteers trained in education services, including senior volunteer programs, at military child development centers in accordance with applicable national service laws and with all the benefits accorded to such participants and volunteers; and provide training and resource subsidies to eligible child care providers and networks of such providers.
In this section: The term eligible child care provider has the meaning given that term in section 658P of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 9858n ). The term military child development center has the meaning given that term in section 1800 of title 10, United States Code.
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