Bill · H.R. 1889· House(119-HR-1889)
Cutting Red Tape on Child Care Providers Act of 2025
- Introduced
- 3/5/2025
- Last activity
- 3/5/2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- Sponsored by
- Marie Perez
- Cosponsors
- - 4 - 4
- Introduced
- In Committee
What this bill would do
The Cutting Red Tape on Child Care Providers Act of 2025 aims to ensure that States receiving Child Care and Development Block Grants do not block licensed child care providers from preparing fresh food. It focuses on allowing the simple preparation of fruits and vegetables. This includes tasks like washing, peeling, and cutting produce. The bill seeks to remove regulatory barriers that currently make it difficult for providers to serve minimally processed agricultural products. By doing so, it intends to improve nutritional outcomes for children.
Yes· 3 of 7
Would children be better off under this?+6
The bill aims to improve the nutritional outcomes of children by allowing them to eat fresh fruits and vegetables.
Would households on low incomes be better off under this?+4
The bill supports the preservation of home-based child care which disproportionately serves low-income families.
Does this make it easier to run a small business?+4
The bill reduces regulatory burdens on home-based and small child care providers by allowing simple food preparation.
The opposite
Does this leave more decisions to the states?-3
The bill limits the ability of states to create their own regulations regarding food preparation for child care providers.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
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Improved Nutrition for Children: The bill aims to improve nutritional outcomes by allowing providers to serve fresh, minimally processed produce like fruits and vegetables instead of pre-packaged, ultra-processed snacks (Section 2).
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Increased Child Care Choices: By simplifying regulations that are currently burdensome for home-based providers, the bill addresses the steady decline in home and family-based child care options (Section 2).
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Support for Specific Demographics: Addressing the decline in home and family-based care helps families who are disproportionately impacted by these declines, specifically low-income and rural families, as well as those needing daycare at non-traditional times due to shift work (Section 2).
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Removal of Regulatory Barriers: The bill prohibits States from creating barriers regarding the simple preparation of fresh fruits and vegetables for both licensed and licensed exempt facilities (Section 4).
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- No negative impacts are explicitly stated in the provided text.
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Demographic And Interest Groups
- Good For Children+6Good For Low Income Households+4Good For Rural Residents+3
- Social Issues And Justice
- Improves Childcare Affordability+3Improves Poverty Reduction+2
- Economy And Finance
- Improves Small Business Support+4
- Governance And Ideology
- Increase States Rights-3
- Healthcare
- Improves Opioid Crisis Response+1
- 12/18/2025
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 5/9/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 4/17/2025
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 3/18/2025
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 3/5/2025
- Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- 3 Cosponsors added.
- Introduced in House
Robert BresnahanRepublican · Pennsylvania
J. CorreaDemocrat · California
Virginia FoxxRepublican · North Carolina
Josh GottheimerDemocrat · New Jersey
Jared GoldenDemocrat · Maine
Adam GrayDemocrat · California
Young KimRepublican · California
Zachary NunnRepublican · Iowa