EXCERPT FROM: KPVI News 6
By STAFF
It's a cycle that can quickly spiral out of control. Within a matter of months business owners who are lenient on receiving payments from their clients find themselves in the same boat.

Some of the 26 childcare operations in the Wood River Valley will have to make adjustments due to stricter licensing regulations handed down by the Idaho Legislature.

LEWISTON – There are new measures in place designed to make sure your children are protected when you're away.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- While a new study of evacuation plans at U.S. childcare facilities found Idaho is not prepared to protect kids during a disaster, a state lawmaker says a bill to bolster these measures could face opposition.

In Idaho we have running water. We have television. There is more than one phone in the state. All of our neighbors have shoes.

After 22 years of deep opposition, sponsors Sen. Tim Corder, R-Mountain Home, and Rep. George Sayler, D-Coeur d'Alene, won a small victory recently for children in child care. Child-care operators who care for seven or more unrelated children must be licensed, and those with four or more must get criminal background checks!

The Idaho Senate voted unanimously to approve a daycare-licensing bill, despite strong objections to several House changes.

The Central District Health Department in Boise is offering the following information for child-care operators and school officials wondering what to do if students become ill with flu-like symptoms that could be swine flu.

BOISE - Amendments to a long-pending day care licensing bill have cleared the Idaho House.

Day-care licensing has never been an easy sell at the Idaho Legislature.