An appropriation bill authorizing the state to fund the private option Medicaid expansion for fiscal 2015 received 68 votes in the House Wednesday. It needed 75 votes to pass.
Yeas: 68
C. Armstrong (D-Little Rock) E. Armstrong (D-North Little Rock) Baine (D-El Dorado) Baird (R-Lowell) Baltz (D-Pocahontas) Bell (R-Mena) Biviano (R-Searcy) Branscum (R-Marshall) Broadaway (D-Paragould) Burris (R-Harrison) Catlett (D-Rover) Collins (R-Fayetteville) Copenhaver (D-Jonesboro) Dale (R-Dover) Davis (R-Little Rock) Dickinson (D-Newport) D. Douglas (R-Bentonville) Edwards (D-Little Rock) Ferguson (D-West Memphis) Fielding (D-Magnolia) Gillam (R-Judsonia) Hawthorne (D-Ashdown) Hickerson (R-Texarkana) Hillman (D-Almyra) Hodges (D-Blytheville) Holcomb (D-Pine Bluff) House (R-North Little Rock) Jett (D-Success) Julian (D-North Little Rock) Kizzia (D-Malvern) Lampkin (D-Monticello) Lea (R-Russellville) Leding (D-Fayetteville)Lenderman (D-Brookland) Linck (R-Yellville) Love (D-Little Rock) Magie (R-Conway) Malone (R-Fort Smith) Mayberry (R-Hensley) McCrary (D-Lonoke) McElroy (D-Tillar) McGill (D-Fort Smith) McLean (D-Batesville) Murdock (D-Marianna) Neal (R-Springdale) Nickels (D-Sherwood) Overbey (D-Lamar) Perry (D-Jacksonville) Ratliff (D-Imboden) Richey (D-Helena) Sabin (D-Little Rock) Scott (R-Rogers) Shepherd (R-El Dorado) Smith (G-Crawfordsville) Steel (D-Nashville) Talley (D-Hope) Vines (D-Hot Springs) Wagner (D-Manila) Walker (D-Little Rock) Wardlaw (D-Hermitage) Whitaker (D-Fayetteville) B. Wilkins (D-Bono) H. Wilkins (D-Pine Bluff) Williams (D-Little Rock) Word (D-Pine Bluff) Wren (D-Melbourne) Wright (D-Forrest City) Carter, Mr. Speaker (R-Cabot) Nays: 27
Alexander (R-Springdale) Ballinger (R-Hindsville) Barnett (R-Siloam Springs) Carnine (R-Rogers) Clemmer (R-Benton) Cozart (R-Hot Springs) Deffenbaugh (R-Van Buren) Dotson (R-Bentonville) C. Douglas (R-Alma) Farrer (R-Austin) Fite (R-Van Buren) Gossage (R-Ozark) Hammer (R-Benton) Harris (R-West Fork) Hobbs (R-Rogers) Hopper (R-Mountain Home) Hutchison (R-Harrisburg) Jean (R-Magnolia) Kerr (R-Little Rock) D. Meeks (R-Conway) S. Meeks (R-Greenbrier) Miller (R-Heber Springs) Payton (R-Wilburn) Rice (R-Waldron) Slinkard (R-Gravette) Westerman (R-Hot Springs) Womack (R-Arkadelphia)
Not Voting: 4
Altes (R-Fort Smith) Bragg (R-Sheridan) Eubanks (R-Paris) Thompson (D-Morrilton) Present: 1 Lowery (R-Maumelle)
Front Section, Pages 6 on 02/20/2014