YourVoice.Now Summary
Moves a campus child care grant for low-income student parents from the Education Department to HHS — rules unchanged
The details
If you are a parent in college who uses campus child care, not much would change. The bill moves one grant program from the Education Department to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The program is called Child Care Access Means Parents in School. It gives colleges money to run child care on campus for low-income students. Most of these students qualify for federal Pell Grants. The bill does not change who qualifies, how big the grants are, or what the money can pay for. Today each grant is at least $10,000 and lasts four years. An existing HHS office would run the program. Its staff, records, and unspent funds would move to HHS. That money could only be spent on what Congress first set it aside for. Grants already made and applications already sent in would carry over as they are. The White House budget office must make sure the move adds no full-time federal jobs overall. It must confirm this to two committees in Congress. The change takes effect six months after the bill becomes law, though the move can start sooner.
Congressional Summary
Less Bureaucracy, Better Child Care for Student Parents Act This bill transfers specified functions relating to child care access for eligible low-income parents in postsecondary education from the Department of Education (ED) to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Specifically, the bill transfers to HHS all the functions and authorities exercised by ED before the bill's effective date related to the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. (The CCAMPIS program awards grants to support the participation of eligible low-income parents in postsecondary education through the provision of campus-based child care services. On November 18, 2025, ED announced an interagency agreement with HHS for HHS to manage competitions, provide technical assistance, and integrate ED's program with HHS's existing programs, while ED must maintain its statutory responsibilities and program oversight.) Additionally, the bill transfers to HHS all personnel and appropriations related to the functions that are transferred under this bill. The bill outlines the authority of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) related to the functions that are transferred under this bill, including that OMB must ensure that this bill does not create a net increase in full-time equivalent employees at HHS or ED. Further, OMB must certify compliance with the bill to specified congressional committees. The transfer of these functions does not affect any suits, proceedings, or applications for benefits, services, licenses, permits, certificates, or financial assistance that are pending on the date of this bill's effective date.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-07-09
- Date Added
- 2026-09-25
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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