The Michigan Senate has voted to exempt baby-sitting from day care regulations after the state ordered a woman to stop watching her friend's children before school.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is expected to sign the legislation approved 37-0 Thursday. The bill already has been passed by the House.
In August, the state Department of Human Services sent a letter to Lisa Snyder of Barry County's Irving Township south of Grand Rapids.
It warned her that if she continued watching three children for about an hour each day before they got on their school bus, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.
Granholm instructed the department to work with lawmakers to change the law so people providing free baby-sitting service won't need day care licenses.