As used in this subchapter:
(1) Caregiver
The term caregiver means an individual who provides a service directly to an eligible child on a person-to-person basis.
(2) Child care certificate
The term child care certificate means a certificate (that may be a check or other disbursement) that is issued by a State or local government under this subchapter directly to a parent who may use such certificate only as payment for child care services or as a deposit for child care services if such a deposit is required of other children being cared for by the provider. Nothing in this subchapter shall preclude the use of such certificates for sectarian child care services if freely chosen by the parent. For purposes of this subchapter, child care certificates shall not be considered to be grants or contracts.
(3) Repealed. Pub. L. 104–193, title VI, § 614(2), Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2287
(4) Eligible child The term eligible child means an individual
(A) who is less than 13 years of age;
(B) whose family income does not exceed 85 percent of the State median income for a family of the same size; and
(C) who
(i) resides with a parent or parents who are working or attending a job training or educational program; or
(ii) is receiving, or needs to receive, protective services and resides with a parent or parents not described in clause (i).
(5) Eligible child care provider The term eligible child care provider means
(A) a center-based child care provider, a group home child care provider, a family child care provider, or other provider of child care services for compensation that
(i) is licensed, regulated, or registered under State law as described in section
9858c (c)(2)(E) of this title; and
(ii) satisfies the State and local requirements, including those referred to in section
9858c (c)(2)(F) of this title;
applicable to the child care services it provides; or
(B) a child care provider that is 18 years of age or older who provides child care services only to eligible children who are, by affinity or consanguinity, or by court decree, the grandchild, great grandchild, sibling (if such provider lives in a separate residence), niece, or nephew of such provider, if such provider complies with any applicable requirements that govern child care provided by the relative involved.
(6) Family child care provider
The term family child care provider means one individual who provides child care services for fewer than 24 hours per day, as the sole caregiver, and in a private residence.
(7) Indian tribe The term Indian tribe has the meaning given it in section
450b (e) of title
25.
(8) Lead agency The term lead agency means the agency designated under section
9858 (a)1 of this title.
(9) Parent
The term parent includes a legal guardian or other person standing in loco parentis.
(10) Repealed. Pub. L. 104–193, title VI, § 614(5), Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2287
(11) Secretary
The term Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services unless the context specifies otherwise.
(12) Sliding fee scale
The term sliding fee scale means a system of cost sharing by a family based on income and size of the family.
(13) State
The term State means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
(14) Tribal organization
(A) In general The term tribal organization has the meaning given it in section
450b (l) of title
25.
(B) Other organizations Such term includes a Native Hawaiian Organization, as defined in section
4909 (4)1 of title
20 and a private
nonprofit">
nonprofit organization established for the purpose of serving youth who are Indians or Native Hawaiians.