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The bill makes the au pair program more uniform and predictable nationwide—benefiting families (including military) and participants with affordable, flexible childcare and clearer rules—while trading away state and local authority to impose stricter safety, labor, or consumer protections and potentially shifting costs and administrative burdens to the federal level.
Parents, families (including military families, first responders, single parents, and shift workers) retain access to affordable, flexible childcare via the au pair program that helps caregivers remain employed and meet irregular schedules.
Families and the Department of State benefit from a single federal standard and national uniformity for the au pair program, giving clear, consistent rules, stipend/eligibility expectations, and centralized oversight across all states.
Au pairs gain clearer, more predictable stipend and compensation rules (reflecting room and board and program costs), improving pay transparency and planning for participants.
States and localities — and thus local families and regulators — lose authority to impose additional childcare, labor, safety, or consumer-protection standards on au pairs, reducing local control and tailoring of protections.
Parents and children may be unable to benefit from stronger local background-check, consumer-protection, or health-and-safety rules that some states might otherwise adopt.
Au pairs risk weaker labor protections and narrower access to worker rights because the program is framed as a foreign-affairs cultural exchange rather than standard employment subject to state labor laws.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Introduced June 26, 2025 by Guy Reschenthaler · Last progress June 26, 2025
Prohibits states and localities from adopting or enforcing laws that regulate the Federal au pair exchange program and requires the Secretary of State to submit a proposed national rule within 90 days to revise stipend levels, the educational stipend, scheduling flexibility for families with nontraditional hours, and standards to promote cultural immersion. The measure emphasizes maintaining a single, nationwide regulatory approach to keep the program affordable and to meet needs of military families, first responders, single parents, and shift workers.