Bill Details
HR.1889 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-05 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced Date
2025-03-05
Policy Area
Families
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This bill would stop states from blocking licensed child care providers from doing simple food preparation of fresh fruits and vegetables if the state receives federal child care grant money. In plain terms, it says child care centers and similar providers should be allowed to wash, peel, cut, and serve fruits and vegetables without facing extra state restrictions. The goal is to make it easier for child care providers to offer healthier food to children and avoid rules that can make simple tasks, like peeling a banana, harder than serving packaged snacks.
- It applies to states that receive funding under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990.
- “Simple food preparation” is defined as basic steps such as washing, peeling, cutting, and serving raw or lightly processed fruits and vegetables.
- States would not be allowed to create barriers to this kind of food prep for licensed child care facilities, including some licensed-exempt facilities.
- The bill says current rules can be too complicated for child care providers, especially home-based providers, and may limit children’s access to fresh, healthy food.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1889 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1889
To require that States that receive a grant under the Child Care and
Development Block Grant Act of 1990, will not prohibit licensed child
care providers from performing simple food preparation of fruits and
vegetables.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 5, 2025
Ms. Perez (for herself, Ms. Foxx, Mrs. Kim, and Mr. Gray) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education
and Workforce
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A BILL
To require that States that receive a grant under the Child Care and
Development Block Grant Act of 1990, will not prohibit licensed child
care providers from performing simple food preparation of fruits and
vegetables.
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 ``Cutting Red Tape on Child Care
Providers Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Access to minimally processed fruits, vegetables, nuts
and seeds is crucial for the development and well-being of
children.
(2) Licensed child care providers often face restrictions
on food preparation that limit their ability to serve fresh
fruits and vegetables.
(3) Home and family based child care options, (estimated
to serve about \1/4\ of families), have seen steady declines
over the past decade. While this decreases child care choices
for all families, it disproportionately impacts low-income and
rural families and those requiring daycare at non-traditional
times because of shift work.
(4) Complicated and burdensome regulations are more
challenging for home-based providers and are likely a part of
the reason these centers are declining.
(5) Current regulations can make it easier to open a pre-
packaged, often ultra-processed, snack than it is to, for
example, peel a banana. This undermines the ability of child
care providers to provide basic nutrition to our kids.
(6) Simplifying regulations to encourage simple food
preparation of minimally processed agricultural products can
improve nutritional outcomes for children.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act and the amendment made by this Act, the
term ``simple food preparation'' means the basic preparation of fruits
and vegetables, including washing, peeling, cutting, and serving raw or
minimally processed produce.
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF BARRIERS UNDER THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK GRANT ACT OF 1990.
Section 658E(c)(2)(F) of the Child Care and Development Block Grant
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(2)(F)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(iii) Prohibition of barriers.--The State
shall not create any barriers on the simple
preparation of fresh fruits and vegetables for
facilities, licensed or licensed exempt.''.
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