Child Care Infant Mortality Prevention Act of 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6379-6380)
Congressional Research Service
Official summary
Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Sep 11, 2013
Child Care Infant Mortality Prevention Act of 2013 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to revise the requirements for a state plan to administer a child care development block grant.
Requires the minimum health and safety training appropriate to a child care provider mandatory under state or local law, and certified by the state plan, to include training on cardiopulmonary resuscitation, first aid, safe sleep practices, and other sudden unexpected infant death prevention strategies.
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