Child Care Quality Incentive Act of 2005

The Child Care Quality Incentive Act of 2005 was designed to improve the quality and availability of child care by increasing the reimbursement rates paid to providers who serve low-income families. The bill would have required states to conduct regular surveys of local child care costs and provided federal incentive grants to states that raised their payment rates toward the full market price. For families and providers, this measure aimed to make high-quality child care more affordable and accessible by ensuring that government subsidies kept pace with the actual cost of local services.