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This bill — the Care Care for Economic Recovery Act — would provide additional funding in FY2020 for taxpayer services, social services block grants, and infrastructure grants to help improve child care safety.

This bill would increase funds for the Child Care Entitlement to States program for the first time in over a decade, bringing the program’s funding to $10 billion. It would also invest $10 billion in infrastructure to improve child care safety and provide $850 million to states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories to fill in gaps in dependent care for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Additionally, this bill would add and modify tax provisions to:

Increase and make refundable the child and dependent care tax credit;
Increase the exclusion from employee income for employer-provided dependent care assistance;
Allow employers payroll tax credits for certain fixed expenses of child care facilities closed due to COVID-19, certain employer-paid employee dependent care expenses, and the employment of workers who perform domestic service in the private home of an employer;
Provide a new refundable payroll tax for child care providers;
Expand the employee retention tax credit to incentivize employers to keep child care workers in payroll;
Allow a carryover of unused benefits or contributions remaining in a dependent care flexible spending arrangement (FSA) from the 2020 plan year to the 2021 plan year.

This bill would also increase funding for Voluntary Income Tax Assistance to support families filing their tax returns.

Finally, this bill would require the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct an immediate needs assessment of the condition of child care facilities throughout the U.S. and authorize HHS to award grants to improve child care facilities through new construction, renovation, and/or expansion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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