S.Amdt. 1156

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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