After Hours Child Care Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3639.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. HINSON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 88, May 24, 2023, Page H2597):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. The single subject of this legislation is: Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant of 1990 to expand eligibility for after hours and nontraditional hours child care programs and establishes a program to award competitive grants for eligibile after hours and nontraditional hours child care programs and providers.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 24, 2023 ↗

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  355 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3639, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3639

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f1ad2a51a45a68471fd01c6ca52c8d6e7a7c96cfe3a4d297e1b53d89f9b693fa

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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