The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Title 33 : Human Services
Chapter 035 : Child Care
Subchapter 002 : CHILD CARE SERVICES
(Cite as: 33 V.S.A. § 3517)-
§ 3517. Child care tuition rates [Effective July 1, 2025; see also 33 V.S.A. § 3517 effective until July 1, 2025 set out above]
A child care provider shall ensure that its tuition rates are available to the public. A regulated child care provider shall not impose an increase on annual child care tuition that exceeds 1.5 times the most recent annual increase in the NAICS code 611, Educational Services. This amount shall be posted on the Department’s website annually. (Added 2023, No. 76, § 12, eff. July 1, 2023; amended 2023, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § E.318.1, eff. July 1, 2024; 2023, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § E.318.2, eff. July 1, 2025.)
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§ 3518. Child care provider ownership disclosure
(a) Definitions. As used in this section:
(1) “Affiliate” means a person that directly or indirectly owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with another person.
(2) “Controls,” “is controlled by,” and “under common control” mean the power to direct, or cause the direction or management and policies of a person, whether through the direct or beneficial ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise. A person who directly or beneficially owns 10 percent or more equity interest, or the equivalent thereof, of another person shall be deemed to control the person.
(3) “Licensee” means a person that the Department approves to receive Child Care Financial Assistance Program funding for child care services pursuant to a provider rate agreement.
(4) “Principal” means one of the following:
(A) the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, manager, or similar officer of a corporation as provided for by 11A V.S.A. § 8.40, nonprofit corporation as provided for by 11B V.S.A. § 8.40, mutual benefit enterprise as provided for by 11C V.S.A. § 822, cooperative as provided for by 11 V.S.A. § 1013, or worker cooperative corporation as provided for by 11 V.S.A. § 1089;
(B) a director of a corporation as provided for by 11A V.S.A. § 8.01, nonprofit corporation as provided for by 11B V.S.A. § 8.01, mutual benefit enterprise as provided for by 11C V.S.A. § 801, cooperative as provided for by 11 V.S.A. § 1006, or worker cooperative corporation as provided for by 11 V.S.A. § 1089;
(C) a member of a member-managed limited liability company as provided for by 11 V.S.A. § 4054;
(D) manager of a manager-managed limited liability company as provided for by 11 V.S.A. § 4054; or
(E) a partner of a partnership as provided for by 11 V.S.A. § 3212 or a general partner of a limited partnership as provided for by 11 V.S.A chapter 23.
(b) Disclosure. The Department shall adopt procedures to require each licensee to disclose, as a condition of receiving Child Care Financial Assistance Program funding pursuant to a provider rate agreement:
(1) the type of business organization of the licensee;
(2) the identity of the licensee’s owners and principals; and
(3) the identity of the owners and principals of the licensee’s affiliates. (Added 2023, No. 76, § 12a, eff. July 1, 2023; amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 473, eff. July 1, 2024.)
