COACH Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The COACH Act requires the Small Business Administration to create a comprehensive resource guide specifically for small businesses that provide child care services. This guide must be published within one year and updated every five years, covering everything from business operations and financial planning to regulatory compliance and quality standards.
Who Benefits and How
Small child care providers and sole proprietors operating child care businesses benefit from free access to expert guidance on running their businesses. Women's business centers, small business development centers, SCORE chapters, and Veteran Business Outreach Centers gain resources to better serve child care entrepreneurs. Non-English speaking child care providers benefit from the requirement to publish the guide in 10 additional languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Small Business Administration must allocate staff time and resources to develop, maintain, translate, and distribute the resource guide. SBA district offices and partner organizations have new distribution responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Resource guide must cover operations, finances, compliance, training/safety, and quality standards
- Must be published in English plus 10 most commonly spoken languages in the US
- SBA must consult with HHS, state child care agencies, and local resource organizations
- Women's business centers, SBDCs, SCORE chapters, and Veteran Business Outreach Centers required to distribute the guide
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the SBA Administrator to create and maintain a comprehensive resource guide to help small businesses operating as child care providers with operations, finances, compliance, training, and quality standards.
Key Policy Areas
Small Business, Child Care, Education
Primary Purpose
Requires the SBA Administrator to create and maintain a comprehensive resource guide to help small businesses operating as child care providers with operations, finances, compliance, training, and quality standards.
Policy Domains
COACH Act - Child Care Resource Guide
Identified Gains
- Small child care providers
- Sole proprietors operating child care
- Non-English speaking child care entrepreneurs
- Child care providers with limited administrative capacity
Identified Costs
- Small Business Administration
- SBA District Offices
- Women's Business Centers
- Small Business Development Centers
- SCORE
- Veteran Business Outreach Centers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Curtis) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Child care providers with limited administrative capacity, Non-English speaking child care entrepreneurs, Small child care providers
SCORE chapters, Small Business Development Centers, Veteran Business Outreach Centers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_administrator"
- → Administrator of the Small Business Administration
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Small businesses as defined under the Small Business Act that operate child care services, including various business models
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