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Congress.gov lists S.2295 as introduced on July 15, 2025, referred to Senate HELP, with status Introduced. It lists Sen. Angela D. Alsobrooks as a cosponsor on September 2, 2025.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Alsobrooks backed a concrete bill aimed at lowering child care costs, but the official status shows it had not passed either chamber or become law.
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The bill text sets a sliding fee scale: families up to 85% of state median income pay no copayment; higher-income families pay gradually more, with the top copayment set at 7% of family income.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill text matches the promised 7% affordability cap, but it remained proposed legislation rather than enacted policy.
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Vote 95 was on a motion regarding Alsobrooks Amendment No. 5294 to S.Con.Res.33. The stated purpose concerned increasing child care funding for families. The motion was rejected, 47 yeas to 51 nays; Alsobrooks voted yea.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Alsobrooks advanced and voted for an amendment related to child care affordability, but it failed procedurally and did not deliver the cap.
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The Congressional Record text for Alsobrooks Amendment No. 5294 says it could include making child care affordable or ensuring no family pays more than 7 percent of family income on child care. After a point of order, the motion failed and the amendment fell.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This confirms the amendment directly targeted the promised 7% cap, but the Senate did not adopt it.
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ACF says the 2024 CCDF final rule prohibits states and territories from charging family co-payments above 7% of family income.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): A limited federal regulatory cap existed for CCDF subsidy copayments, but it applied only to participating subsidy families and predated Alsobrooks's Senate term, so it is only partial context, not fulfillment by her federal service.
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The HHS final rule states it rescinds the requirement to limit family co-payments to 7% of family income, with an effective date of July 13, 2026.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The limited CCDF copayment cap was scheduled for repeal after the assessment date, reinforcing that no durable broad federal cap on family child care costs had been enacted.
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It rescinds the requirements to limit family co-payments to 7 percent of family income. Effective: July 13, 2026.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The limited CCDF subsidy copayment cap was rescinded effective July 13, 2026, so even the narrower preexisting federal 7% subsidy rule was not a current delivered federal cap as of the refresh date.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The Senate rejected proceeding to S.J.Res.199, the CRA resolution to disapprove the CCDF rollback; Alsobrooks voted yes, showing effort, but the rollback remained in place.
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Last Action Date Listed July 28, 2026. Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS).
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The CRA resolution targeting the CCDF rollback reached the Senate calendar before the failed July 30 vote, documenting a concrete but unsuccessful effort rather than enacted relief.
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Last Action Date Listed July 15, 2025. House Committee on Education and Workforce
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The House companion to the Child Care for Working Families Act remained at its introduction/referral action, with no official sign of passage or enactment.
This amendment would have ensured that no family pays more than seven percent of their income on child care. Republicans voted it down.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Alsobrooks’s office described the amendment as directly matching the 7% cap promise, but also stated it was voted down, documenting effort without delivery.
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09-02-2025 | S.2295 | Child Care for Working Families Act Latest Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Alsobrooks's official legislation page still lists her cosponsorship of S.2295 with only referral to HELP, showing effort but no enacted 7% child care cost cap.
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Permanently expands the Employer-Provided Child Care Credit and bolsters the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit and the Dependent Care Assistance Program
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, Senate Finance described enacted child care-related tax benefits, but not a federal cap limiting household child care costs to 7% of income.
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This bill has the status Introduced
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Congress.gov shows the main Senate bill matching the promise remained introduced rather than passed, signed, or enacted.
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the copayment shall be 7 percent of that family income, toward such cost for all such children.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill text contains the promised 7% cap structure, confirming Alsobrooks backed a substantively aligned proposal, but the bill had not become law.
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ensuring no working family pays more than 7 percent of the family income on child care.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Alsobrooks submitted S.Amdt.5752 tying application of the reconciliation bill to enactment of a law making child care affordable at the 7% threshold, a concrete effort but not delivery.
It rescinds the requirements to limit family co-payments to 7 percent of family income
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): HHS rescinded the narrower CCDF subsidy copayment cap, reinforcing that even limited federal 7% regulatory protection was reversed rather than expanded into the promised broad family cost cap.
neversame_term
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secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%
Assessments
Public state: pendingAs of 2026-09-30 · verified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved.unknownA for effort
The verified commitment concerns achieving a 7% cap on family child care costs. Verified evidence shows a matching amendment was defeated, so the cap was not enacted through that effort. Another verified passage shows even a narrower 7% family copayment requirement was rescinded. Because there is no documented deadline that has expired, the failed attempt is best treated as unresolved rather than never. The amendment evidence supports effort attributable to Alsobrooks in the same policy area, but not delivery.
provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 91%
Public state: unverifiedAs of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): never.same_termA for effort
No broad federal cap limiting family child care costs to 7% of household income has been enacted during Alsobrooks's Senate term. The 2024 CCDF rule was a limited subsidy co-payment cap that predated her federal service and did not cover all family child care costs; it also was being rescinded. Alsobrooks did materially pursue the promise by cosponsoring S.2295 and offering Amendment No. 5294, both aimed at the 7% affordability cap, but the bill remained introduced and the amendment failed, so the promised outcome was not delivered.
provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 95%