Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act of 2025

Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act of 2025 would authorize a new grant pilot program under the Department of Health and Human Services, administered by the Administration for Children and Families, to help local lead agencies fund and operate child care for the minor children of law enforcement officers who work shifts and nontraditional hours. The aim is to improve safety, recruitment, and retention of police officers by reducing child care barriers for families that require nonstandard child care arrangements. The program would run for three years per grant, with annual funding set at $24 million across 2026–2030, and includes a minimum 20% set-aside to support smaller law enforcement agencies (fewer than 200 officers) or consortia that include such agencies. Funds can support startup costs, training, direct child care subsidies, care for sick or disabled children, extended hours, construction or renovation of facilities, and contracts with local child care providers or health departments. The initiative requires matching funds from non-federal sources and imposes oversight, audits, and periodic Congress-directed studies, with a sunset at the end of fiscal year 2030.