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Last progress November 7, 2025 (3 months ago)
Introduced on November 7, 2025 by Amy Klobuchar
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Creates a Child Care Resource Guide at the Small Business Administration that the Administrator must write, publish online, and update regularly for small businesses that operate as child care providers. The guide will cover operations, finances, legal compliance, training and safety, and quality; the SBA must consult child care and health agencies before publishing and must post the guide in English and the ten most commonly spoken non‑English U.S. languages.
Redesignate current section 49 of the Small Business Act as section 50.
Insert a new section 49 into the Small Business Act titled “Child care resource guide.”
The Administrator must publish or update a resource guide for small business concerns operating as child care providers not later than 1 year after the COACH Act’s enactment and at least once every 5 years thereafter.
The resource guide must be applicable to various business models as determined by the Administrator and aimed at small business concerns operating as child care providers.
The resource guide must include guidance on operations, including marketing and management planning.
Primary effects: Small-business child care providers will gain a centralized, government-produced resource to help manage operations, finances, licensing, training, and program quality. The guide should lower information barriers, help providers meet legal requirements, and support safer, higher-quality care—particularly for providers with limited administrative capacity or limited English proficiency. Secondary effects: families and children may benefit from improved provider capacity and clarity about quality and safety practices. The SBA will incur administrative workload to consult agencies, produce, translate, publish, and update the guide; those costs are administrative and not specified or funded in the text. Specified child care and public health agencies will be consulted, increasing interagency coordination. The requirement does not impose new compliance duties on states or providers beyond using the resource; it is informational rather than regulatory. Effectiveness will depend on SBA resourcing, the quality of interagency consultation, and outreach so providers know and use the guide.