Requires the Secretary to withhold child care block grant funds from noncompliant states and to permanently bar child care providers that receive a final determination of fraud from federal child care and child nutrition funding.

• Requires the Secretary to withhold child care block grant funds from noncompliant states and removes the Secretary's authority to waive those sanctions.
• Requires permanent debarment from child care block grant funds for providers with a final fraud determination, and from the Child and Adult Care Food Program for providers debarred from that program.
• Requires states to describe their fraud controls and eligibility procedures, and requires a corrective action plan when a state's improper payment rate exceeds 5 percent, with possible ineligibility after two consecutive years above that rate.
• Requires the Comptroller General to study fraud prevention in Head Start, child nutrition, and child care programs and report to Congress within two years.

• Education and Workforce Committee (House)
• Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (Senate)

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