An appropriation bill authorizing the state to fund the private-option Medicaid expansion for fiscal 2015 received 71 votes in the House Friday. It needed 75 votes to pass.
Yeas: 71
Altes (R-Fort Smith)
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)
Bragg (R-Sheridan)
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)
Eubanks (R-Paris)
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)
Lowery (R-Maumelle)
Magie (R-Conway)
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)
Thompson (D-Morrilton)
Vines (D-Hot Springs)
Wagner (D-Manila)
Walker (D-Little Rock)
Wardlaw (D-Hermitage)
Whitaker (D-Fayetteville)
B. Wilkins (D-Bono)
Williams (D-Little Rock)
Word (D-Pine Bluff)
Wren (D-Melbourne)
Wright (D-Forrest City)
Carter, Mr. Speaker (R-Cabot)
Nays: 18
Barnett (R-Siloam Springs)
Carnine (R-Rogers)
Clemmer (R-Benton)
Cozart (R-Hot Springs)
Deffenbaugh (R-Van Buren)
Dotson (R-Bentonville)
Farrer (R-Austin)
Hammer (R-Benton)
Hobbs (R-Rogers)
Hopper (R-Mountain Home)
Hutchison (R-Harrisburg)
Kerr (R-Little Rock)
D. Meeks (R-Conway)
S. Meeks (R-Greenbrier)
Miller (R-Heber Springs)
Rice (R-Waldron)
Westerman (R-Hot Springs)
Womack (R-Arkadelphia)
Not Voting: 11
Alexander (R-Springdale)
Ballinger (R-Hindsville)
C. Douglas (R-Alma)
Fite (R-Van Buren)
Gossage (R-Ozark)
Harris (R-West Fork)
Jean (R-Magnolia)
Malone (R-Fort Smith)
Payton (R-Wilburn)
Slinkard (R-Gravette)
H. Wilkins (D-Pine Bluff)
Front Section, Pages 5 on 02/22/2014