---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9859"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9859"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9859"
units:
  - "Chapter 105 — Community Services Programs"
  - "Subchapter II–C — Child Care Safety and Health Grants"
---

# §9859. Definitions


In this subchapter:

- (1) **Child with a disability; infant or toddler with a disability—** The terms “child with a disability” and “infant or toddler with a disability” have the meanings given the terms in sections [1401](/usc/20/1401.md) and [1431](/usc/20/1431.md) of title 20.
- (2) **Eligible child care provider—** The term “eligible child care provider” means a provider of [child](/usc/42/416.md?p=e) care services for compensation, including a provider of care for a [school](/usc/42/6372.md?p=1)-age [child](/usc/42/416.md?p=e) during non-[school](/usc/42/6372.md?p=1) hours, that—
  - (A) is licensed, regulated, registered, or otherwise legally operating, under [State](#4) and local law; and
  - (B) satisfies the [State](#4) and local requirements,

  applicable to the [child](/usc/42/416.md?p=e) care services the provider provides.

- (3) **Secretary—** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- (4) **State—** The term “State” means any of the several States of the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k), the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–310, div. A, title XIV, § 1401, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1143.)