Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill creates a new grant program to help police officers find and pay for child care. It specifically focuses on officers who work "nontraditional" hours, like night shifts, weekends, and holidays, when most regular daycare centers are closed.
• The program would provide $24 million each year from 2026 to 2030. This money can be used to build or fix up daycare buildings, train child care workers, or give police families direct financial help to pay for their monthly child care costs.
• To make sure small towns get help, at least 20% of the money must go to police departments with fewer than 200 officers. This ensures that smaller communities can support their officers just as much as big cities can.
• Local departments that get this money are required to help pay for the program over time. They would pay 10% of the costs in the first year, and that amount would slowly go up to about 33% by the third year of the grant.
• The main goal is to help police departments hire and keep more officers. By making it easier for officers to balance their jobs with their families, the bill aims to fix staffing shortages and support the people who keep communities safe.

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