# H.R. 7726 (119th): No Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations Act of 2026

No Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations Act of 2026 This bill subjects states to additional sanctions for improperly using funds under the Child Care and Development Block Grant program. The program provides grants to states to support child care programs for low-income working families. Specifically, if the Office of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) finds that a state has failed to comply substantially with the requirements of the program, the ACF must impose additional sanctions, which include disqualifying the state from receiving funds under the program. Under current law, the ACF is permitted, but not required, to take such actions for a state's noncompliance.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: abuse_accountability. Category: justice_truth. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: child_care. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: child_protection. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: grant_compliance. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: state_accountability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 197: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 198: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill makes enforcement of child care grant compliance mandatory rather than discretionary. That is a prudential accountability measure with a plausible good aim of protecting program funds for needy families. It does not directly restrain a named moral evil or directly advance one, and its effects depend on administrative judgments about compliance and how sanctions would affect children and families who rely on the program.
Theological note: The bill touches stewardship of public funds meant to help low-income working families and their children, and the duty of officials to use entrusted resources faithfully. Its relevance lies in fiscal accountability and the protection of vulnerable families, not in any direct moral act such as abuse, abortion, or coercion.

## Recorded votes

Roll 197: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 210 · Nay 213 · Other 7.
Roll 198: On Passage. Yea 217 · Nay 207 · Other 6.

HTML: https://justmeasure.org/bill/hr-7726-119/