Targeting Child Care Funds Based on Poverty Act of 2021
This bill allocates certain funding for child care to states based on the state's share of children in poverty who are under 13 years of age.
To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to target additional child 
 care funds by allocating to States based on the number of children in 
                    poverty, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Targeting Child Care Funds Based on 
Poverty Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. DISTRIBUTION OF ADDITIONAL MATCHING FUNDS BASED ON SHARE OF 
              CHILDREN IN POVERTY.

    Section 418(a)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
618(a)(2)(B)) is amended--
            (1) by striking all that precedes ``total'' and inserting 
        the following:
                    ``(B) Allotments to states.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Except as provided in 
                        clause (ii), the''; and
            (2) by adding after and below the end the following:
                            ``(ii) Special rule.--To the extent that 
                        the total amount referred to in clause (i) for 
                        fiscal year 2022 or for any succeeding fiscal 
                        year exceeds the total amount so referred to 
                        for fiscal year 2020, the excess shall be 
                        allotted among the States based on the share of 
                        each State of the number of children in poverty 
                        who have not attained 13 years of age.''.
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Targeting Child Care Funds Based on Poverty Act of 2021
To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to target additional child care funds by allocating to States based on the number of children in poverty, and for other purposes.
Targeting Child Care Funds Based on Poverty Act of 2021
Rep. Miller, Carol D.