Requires the Secretary to permanently bar child care providers and food program sites that have a final determination of fraud from receiving federal child care and food program funds.

• Requires the Secretary to investigate fraud involving Child Care and Development Block Grant funds and to permanently debar providers with a final fraud determination from receiving those funds.
• Defines a final fraud determination as one where review or appeal rights have been exhausted or waived, and includes knowingly false statements, misrepresented ownership or enrollment, operating without required state licensing, improper spending, and other fraud under federal or state law.
• Requires permanent debarment from the Child and Adult Care Food Program for institutions or day care homes whose participation ends due to a final fraud determination, or that are debarred from the child care block grant program.
• Applies the fraud-based debarment rules to both the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act's food program provisions.

• Education and Workforce Committee (House)

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