Children: child care; definition of family child care home; expand to include child care microcenters. Amends sec. 1 of 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111).

SB 733 reclassifies "child care microcenters" as a type of "family child care home" under Michigan's child care licensing law. This change directly affects small, home-based child care operations (microcenters) that serve a limited number of children, moving them from the "child care center" category to the "family child care home" category. The key mechanism is amending the legal definition in MCL 722.111 to explicitly include microcenters under family child care home regulations, which typically have different licensing requirements than larger centers. As a result, microcenter operators will now follow the same licensing rules as traditional home-based child care providers instead of facility-based centers.