House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025
Official title: To assist States in carrying out projects to expand the child care workforce and child care facilities in the States, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Josh Harder D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 21, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 21, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 581.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARDER of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 12, January 21, 2025, Page H258):Article 1, Section 8 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 40 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 581, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/581
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 31, 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 January 31, 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
3 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 2 Democrats
1 of 3 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Sarah Elfreth (D-MD), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Josh Harder.
- H.R. 776 (119th) Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025
- H.R. 345 (119th) Fire Department Repayment Act of 2025
- H.R. 4671 (119th) Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our Firefighters Act
- H.R. 2910 (119th) Youth Workforce Readiness Act of 2025
- H.R. 4852 (119th) Wildfire Emergency Preparedness Act of 2025
- H.R. 914 (119th) American CANS Act
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.