Child Care Workforce Development Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3273 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3273 To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out an early childhood educator loan assistance program, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 8, 2025 Ms. Clark of Massachusetts (for herself, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Gomez, Ms. McClellan, Ms. Pettersen, and Ms. Tokuda) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out an early childhood educator loan assistance program, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Child Care Workforce Development Act''. SEC. 2. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR LOAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. (a) Authority.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services may carry out a program of entering into contracts with eligible early childhood educators under which such educators agree to serve for a period of 5 years as early childhood educators with a qualified employer, in consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than $6,000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of such educators. (b) Recertification.--An eligible early childhood educator seeking to continue to receive payments under this section shall submit on an annual basis to the Secretary such information as the Secretary may require to certify that the educator is continuing to meet the criteria to be considered an eligible early childhood educator. (c) Maximum Amount of Loan.--The total amount of payments received by an eligible early