Support passage of the Child Care for Working Families Act to make child care more affordable, including capping working families' child care costs at seven percent of income, providing free child care for families below 85% of state median income, and reducing the typical family's cost to less than $15 a day.

Senator Andy Kim (D-N.J.) joined Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA-03) in reintroducing the bicameral Child Care for Working Families Act, comprehensive legislation to ensure families across America can find and afford the high-quality child care they need... The legislation would: Make child care affordable for working families. The typical family earning the state median income will pay less than $15 a day for child care. No working family will pay more than seven percent of their income on child care. Families earning below 85% of state median income will pay nothing at all for child care.

Kim joined reintroduction of the Child Care for Working Families Act, which would cap and reduce child care costs for working families.

Senator Kim Joins Colleagues to Reintroduce Bill to Expand Access to Affordable Child Care Nationwide - Senator Andy Kim
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Congress.gov lists Andy Kim as in Congress 2019-present, Senate New Jersey 118th-119th (2024-present), and House New Jersey District 3 116th-118th (2019-2024).

Establishes the relevant federal service timeline: Kim was a House member when he cosponsored the House bill in January 2024 and a senator starting in the 118th Congress in 2024.

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Senator Andy Kim - Congress.gov Member Profile
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The bill text provides no copayment for families at or below 85% of state median income and caps higher-income copayments at 7% of family income.

Confirms that the introduced House bill contained the affordability provisions referenced in the promise, including the 85% state-median-income free-care threshold and the 7% income cap.

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Text - H.R.2976 - 118th Congress: Child Care for Working Families Act
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Kim, Andy [D-NJ-3] as a cosponsor of H.R.2976 on 01/09/2024.

Kim took concrete legislative action supporting the Child Care for Working Families Act by cosponsoring the House version while serving in the 118th Congress.

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Cosponsors - H.R.2976 - 118th Congress: Child Care for Working Families Act
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Congress.gov shows latest action: referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on 04/27/2023; status: Introduced.

The House version Kim cosponsored did not advance to passage or become law in the 118th Congress, so the promised passage was not delivered through this bill.

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H.R.2976 - 118th Congress: Child Care for Working Families Act
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Congress.gov shows latest action: read twice and referred to the Senate HELP Committee on 04/27/2023; status: Introduced.

The Senate companion bill also remained only introduced and referred to committee, with no recorded passage, reinforcing that the Act was not enacted.

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S.1354 - 118th Congress: Child Care for Working Families Act
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