Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill creates a new grant program to help police officers find child care that works with their irregular schedules. It would provide $24 million every year through 2030 to help departments set up these services.
• The money can be used to build or fix up child care centers, train staff, or give police families direct financial help to pay for care. It specifically targets night shifts and weekends when most daycares are closed.
• At least 20 percent of the money is reserved for smaller police departments that have fewer than 200 full-time officers. This ensures that small towns and rural areas can benefit from the program too.
• Local departments that receive the money must eventually help pay for the costs. They would pay 10 percent in the first year, and that amount would go up to about 33 percent by the third year.
• The government will also study how well the program works and whether other first responders, like firefighters or EMTs, need similar help with child care in the future.

Impact Analysis

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