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Improving Child Care for Working Families Act of 2025

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation of the exclusion for dependent care assistance programs.

Introduced Sep 23, 2025

Latest action (Sep 23, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Referred to
Ways and Means Committee
Policy area
Taxation
Issues
Labor & Wages

Summary
  • Increases the annual amount workers can exclude from income for dependent care expenses from $7,500 to $10,500
  • Increases the annual exclusion amount for married couples filing separately from $3,750 to $5,250
  • Effective for calendar years beginning after the bill is enacted

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
7 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Kim Schrier’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $71,027
  • Employer not reported $55,267
  • MICROSOFT $25,970
  • MICROSOFT CORPORATION $24,615
  • KAISER PERMANENTE $20,420

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Kim Schrier → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Sep 23, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
  2. Sep 23, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 3596 — Stronger Start for Working Families Act · Introduced Jan 8, 2026 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 2994 — Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 5881 — Double Dependents Relief Act · Introduced Oct 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 3155 — Child Care for American Families Act · Introduced May 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • S 1421 — Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • S 4918 — Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2026 · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Cong. 119 70%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Sep 23, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 23, 2025

Ms. Schrier (for herself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Norton, and Mr. Thanedar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation of the exclusion for dependent care assistance programs.

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 “Improving Child Care for Working Families Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN LIMITATION OF EXCLUSION FOR DEPENDENT CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

(a) In General.—Section 129(a)(2)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking “$7,500 ($3,750” and inserting “$10,500 (half such dollar amount”.

(b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to amounts paid or incurred in calendar years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act. <all>

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