Lawmakers hit pause on childcare licensure reform — for now

Lawmakers hit pause on childcare licensure reform — for now

Jena Desautels and her daughter at Little Shepherd Child Care and Preschool in St. Albans City in January 2026. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Licensure limbo House lawmakers have tabled an effort to introduce a new licensure system for childcare providers in Vermont, saying that too many questions remain unanswered. S.206, a bill that the Senate passed in March, would have introduced a rigorous, tiered system for licensing individual chil…