# 119-hr-8336: Helping Ensure Reliable Opportunities in Child Care for Military Families Act

119-hr-8336, Helping Ensure Reliable Opportunities in Child Care for Military Families Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Kiggans, Jennifer A. [R-VA-2] (R-VA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-8336
- Congress: 119
- Title: Helping Ensure Reliable Opportunities in Child Care for Military Families Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-04-16
- Sponsor: Rep. Kiggans, Jennifer A. [R-VA-2] (R-VA)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-21

## Summary

**This bill would expand child care capacity and reliability for military families by broadening who can provide care and by building centralized data to cut waitlists and support readiness.** It would add new authorities to recruit National Service Volunteers and remove some prior-service limits to increase available providers and placements in military child development centers. - Military families would get more child care options and placements through expanded eligible providers and partnerships with national service programs. - Child care workers and applicants would face a new preclearance process with FBI fingerprint and state checks plus health screening, could use voluntary job-sharing (each worker at least 20 hours per week), and could receive limited installation benefits like commissary and Morale, Welfare, and Recreation access on care days. - The Department of Defense would build a DoD-wide child care readiness data system with standardized data updated at least every 90 days and must deliver reports on waitlists within 90 days and on readiness impacts within 180 days.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Rep. Jacobs, Sara [D-CA-51] (D-CA), 2026-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hinson, Ashley [R-IA-2] (R-IA), 2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1] (D-NH), 2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More child care staff and supports: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would widen who can work in Department of Defense child care programs by removing a prior-service rule. It would allow national service volunteers to be placed in military child development centers if they meet training and hiring rules. DoD would have to write rules by June 1,…
- One DoD child care data system: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would require the Secretary of Defense to build a unified child care readiness data system for all services. The system would track capacity, utilization, staff vacancies and turnover, compensation ranges, and waitlists (including off-base and nontraditional hours). Data must b…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
- 119-hr-1004: Love Lives On Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025
- 119-hr-429: Rosie the Riveter Commemorative Coin Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-8336 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8336)

## Related
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9237)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
- [119-hr-1004: Love Lives On Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1004)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
- [119-hr-429: Rosie the Riveter Commemorative Coin Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-429)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8336 (as of 2026-09-21).