House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Child Care Availability and Affordability Act
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the employer-provided child care credit and the dependent care assistance exclusion.
Sponsor: Rep. Salud Carbajal D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 4, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 4, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1827.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARBAJAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 41, March 4, 2025, Page H976):The constitutional authority of Congress to enact this legislation is provided by Article I, Section 8, clause 1 of the United States Constitution which provides Congress with the power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises to provide for the general Welfare of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 4, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 296 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1827, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1827
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
27 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 19 Democrats
8 of 27 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Jim Costa (D-CA), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Donald Davis (D-NC), Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Josh Harder (D-CA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Frank Mrvan (D-IN), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Zachary Nunn (R-IA), Marie Perez (D-WA), Greg Stanton (D-AZ), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Emilia Sykes (D-OH), David Valadao (R-CA), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Eugene Vindman (D-VA), George Whitesides (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
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Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.