A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.
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Latest Action · January 16, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2019
This bill expands the tax credits and exclusions that are available for child care expenses. The bill includes provisions that
increase the tax credit for employer-provided child care facilities; increase the household and dependent care tax credit and make the credit refundable; allow a new $2,000 annual tax credit for three years for child care providers who hold a bachelor's degree in early childhood education, child care, or a related degree and who provide at least 1,200 hours of child care services in a taxable year; and increase the tax exclusion for employer-provided dependent care assistance.
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