House vote on private option

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

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