House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Child Care for Working Families Act
Official title: To increase the quality and supply of child care and lower child care costs for families.
Sponsor: Rep. Robert Scott D-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 15, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 15, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4418.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 121, July 15, 2025, Page H3316):Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 15, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 62 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4418, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4418
- 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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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 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
107 cosponsors — 107 Democrats
0 of 107 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Gabe Amo (D-RI), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Troy Carter (D-LA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Judy Chu (D-CA), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Angie Craig (D-MN), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Danny Davis (D-IL), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and 77 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Robert Scott.
- H.R. 6893 (119th) Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act
- H.Res. 435 (119th) Expressing the profound sorrow of the House of Representatives on the death of the Honorable Gerald E. Connolly.
- H.Res. 237 (119th) Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of Education to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of…
- H.R. 20 (119th) Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
- H.R. 2743 (119th) Raise the Wage Act of 2025
- H.R. 1954 (119th) Do No Harm Act
Related bills
- S. 2295 (119th) Child Care for Working Families ActIdentical bill
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.