House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Improving Child Care for Working Families Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation of the exclusion for dependent care assistance programs.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 23, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Sep 23, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5558.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SCHRIER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 156, September 23, 2025, Page H4494):Article I of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 43 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5558, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5558
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 3, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 February 3, 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
7 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 6 Democrats
1 of 7 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
André Carson (D-IN), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), George Latimer (D-NY), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Shri Thanedar (D-MI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Kim Schrier.
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- H.R. 3826 (119th) Expanding Access to Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2025
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- H.R. 8425 (119th) Strengthening the Vaccines for Children Program Act of 2026
- H.R. 1433 (119th) Kids’ Access to Primary Care Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.