He will support expanding access to child care by creating a provider-availability portal and investing $15 billion over five years to improve child care facilities.

On the child care side, the bill would create a portal where parents could go to learn more about which providers have slots for new enrollees. The legislation makes a $15 billion investment over the next five years to improve the physical spaces of child care facilities.

Neal's bill would create a child care availability portal and invest $15 billion over five years in child care facility improvements.

Key House Democrat unveils economic plan to support families | Congressman Richard Neal
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Latest Action: Senate - 07/30/2020 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. This bill has the status Passed House.

A House-passed child care recovery bill advanced in 2020 but did not become law; it stalled after Senate referral.

never same_term A for effort

H.R.7327 - Child Care for Economic Recovery Act, 116th Congress
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For an additional amount for “Child Care and Development Fund”, $10,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2024, for necessary expenses for infrastructure grants to improve child care safety...

The failed House-passed bill included child care facility infrastructure grants, but at $10 billion through FY2024 rather than the promised $15 billion over five years, and it was not enacted.

partial same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.7327 - Child Care for Economic Recovery Act
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Roll Call 172 | Bill Number: H. R. 7327... Child Care for Economic Recovery Act... Status: Passed... Neal Democratic Massachusetts MA Yea.

Neal voted yes on the 2020 House-passed child care recovery bill, showing concrete support for child care facility funding, but the bill did not become law.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, Roll Call 172, H.R. 7327
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Latest Action: 03/11/2021 Became Public Law No: 117-2. This bill has the status Became Law.

The American Rescue Plan became law in 2021 and included major child care funding, providing partial fulfillment of the broader child care access and investment promise.

partial later_term A for effort

H.R.1319 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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SEC. 2201... $14,990,000,000... to carry out the program authorized under section 658C of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act... SEC. 2202... $23,975,000,000... Uses of Funds... Rent... utilities, facility maintenance or improvements, or insurance.

ARPA delivered nearly $15 billion for CCDBG and almost $24 billion in stabilization grants that could cover facility maintenance or improvements, but it was emergency FY2021 funding and not a dedicated $15 billion five-year facilities program or provider-availability portal.

partial later_term A for effort

Text - H.R.1319 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
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Roll Call 49... H.R. 1319... Neal Democratic Massachusetts MA Yea.

Neal voted yes on the House passage vote for the American Rescue Plan, the enacted law that partially delivered child care funding related to the promise.

partial later_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, Roll Call 49, H.R. 1319
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