House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Rural Child Care Facility Expansion Act
Official title: To establish a low-interest loan program to support the renovation, retrofit, expansion, and adaptation of structures to increase the availability of child care in rural communities.
Sponsor: Rep. April McClain Delaney D-MDWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 22, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 22, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8453.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McCLAIN DELANEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 71, April 22, 2026, Page H3068):Article I, Section 8, clause 3Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 22, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8453, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8453
- 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
5 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 4 Democrats
1 of 5 cosponsors (20%) are from the other party.
Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Josh Riley (D-NY), Eric Sorensen (D-IL).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. April McClain Delaney.
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.