 The Michigan Senate voting Wednesday to subject the legislature and the governor's office to the state's public records law. A significant vote for the upper chamber where similar proposals have been repeatedly blocked for years. Now it passed through the House and signed by Governor Whitmer. It would add Michigan's status as one of only two states in the nation where lawmakers and the governor are exempt from public records requests. The Senate voted 36-2, believe it or not. 36-2.