{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-durbin-introduce-bipartisan-bill-expanding-nationwide-background-checks-for-childcare-workers/", "Hawley, Durbin Introduce Bipartisan Bill Expanding Nationwide Background Checks for Childcare Workers", "2024-09-26", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure all contractors working with children are authorized to have to a nationwide background check.\n\nThe new bill, which would amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993(NCPA), would expand mandatory nationwide background checks for all individuals under contract with a school.\n\n\u201cBackground checks for childcare workers are common sense. My legislation with Senator Durbin fixes an oversight in the law and will help keep American kids safe. Parents should be assured that everyone who works with their kids, even contractors, has been thoroughly vetted,\u201d said Hawley.\n\n\u201cWhen parents drop their kids off at school, they shouldn\u2019t have to worry if their children are safe in the care of the school\u2019s faculty. While the Child Protection Improvements Act was passed with the intent of keeping children safe, it created an inadvertent complication in securing nationwide background checks for all personnel with unsupervised access to children, namely contractors hired by schools,\u201d said Durbin. \u201cSchools and other state agencies often rely on contractors for a number of services geared toward children, including safe transportation. I\u2019m introducing bipartisan legislation with Senator Hawley to correct the current patchwork approach to securing nationwide background checks for contractors who work with children.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-durbin-introduce-bipartisan-bill-expanding-nationwide-background-checks-for-childcare-workers/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4544380828738213, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}