Paid Family Leave

House and Senate negotiators will have to land on a compromise by Monday at the latest if Democrats want to pass their signature child care legislation before the planned May 12 adjournment date.

Senate leader Phil Baruth said a paid leave program of the size and scope approved by the House doesn’t have the simple majority it needs to clear the Senate.

The future of the 12-week paid family leave proposal is uncertain, as the Senate and Gov. Phil Scott have different ideas.

Over the next two weeks, key committees in both the House and Senate will have to finalize work on major bills dealing with housing, child care, paid family and medical leave and other policy proposals.

Here's how Vermont lawmakers are thinking about issues such as ambulance funding and paid family and medical leave.

Article 9 of the state's founding document spells out when it's OK for elected officials to raise taxes, but lawmakers often differ on how to interpret the constitutional provision.

Host Connor Cyrus speaks with a roundtable of Vermont political reporters about key legislation in the first month of the

Advocates for paid family and medical leave say Gov. Phil Scott's opt-in program will exclude workers living on the margins.

Republicans took a thumping in down-ballot races for the Vermont House of Representatives Tuesday as Democrats picked up a supermajorities in both chambers of the Legislature.

Democrats will again have strong majorities in the House and Senate, and leaders are expected to consider major new expenditures on child care, paid family leave, and nutrition assistance.