Vote Tallies
Medicaid Reform (HF 841) - Rebalancing the Long - Term Care System - Senate Vote
May 4, 2005
This sweeping legislation begins the process of rebalancing Iowa's long-term care system, a system that serves persons with disabilities and older Iowans. The bill is intended to begin the process of focusing more resources and placing more emphasis on home and community-based services options, and less on nursing facility and other institutional levels of care.
Senators Voting FOR HF 841 (41): Jeff Angelo, Daryl Beall, Dennis Black, Joe Bolkcom, Bob Brunkhorst, Mike Connolly, Tom Courtney, Jeff Danielson, Dick Dearden, Bill Dotzler, Bob Dvorsky, Gene Fraise, Thurman Gaskill, Mike Gronstal, Jim Hahn, Tom Hancock, Jack Hatch, Wally Horn, Hubert Houser, David Johnson, Jack Kibbie, Keith Kreiman, Jeff Lamberti, Matt McCoy, Larry McKibben, David Mulder, Jim Putney, Herman Quirmbach, Amanda Ragan, Tom Rielly, Brian Schoenjahn, Joe Seng, Jim Seymour. Doug Shull, Roger Stewart, Maggie Tinsman, Pat Ward, Steve Warnstadt, Ron Wieck, Frank Wood, Brad Zaun Senators Voting
AGAINST HF 841 (9): Jerry Behn, Nancy Boettger, Stewart Iverson, Steve Kettering, Chuck Larson, Mary Lundby, Paul McKinley, David Miller, Mark Zieman
Yea: 41, Nay: 9, Not Voting: 0
Biologically Based Mental Health Parity (HF420) - Senate Vote
April 26, 2005
This mental health parity bill covers biologically-based illnesses only. One of the Senators (Mary Lundby) voted "no" in protest that the bill did not cover all mental illnesses and substance abuse.
Senate Democrats Voting FOR HF 420 (25): Daryl Beall, Dennis Black, Joe Bolkcom, Mike Connolly, Tom Courtney, Jeff Danielson, Dick Dearden, Bill Dotzler, Bob Dvorsky, Gene Fraise, Mike Gronstal, Tom Hancock, Jack Hatch, Wally Horn, Jack Kibbie, Keith Kreiman, Matt McCoy, Herman Quirmbach, Amanda Ragan, Tom Reilly, Brian Schoenjahn, Joe Seng, Roger Stewart, Steve Warnstadt, Frank Wood
Senate Democrats Voting FOR HF 420 (13): Nancy Boettger, Bob Brunkhorst, Thurman Gaskill, Steve Kettering, David Johnson, Jeff Lamberti, Larry McKibben, Jim Putney, Jim Seymour, Doug Shull, Maggie Tinsman, Pat Ward, Brad Zaun
Senate Democrats Voting AGAINST HF 420 (0): No Senate Democrats voted against this bill.
Senate Republicans Voting AGAINST HF 420 (12): Jeff Angelo, Jerry Behn, Jim Hahn, Hubert Houser, Stewart Iverson, Chuck Larson, Mary Lundby*, Paul McKinley, David Miller, David Mulder, Paul Wieck, Mark Zieman
Yea; 38, Nay: 12, Not Voting: 0
Medicaid Reform (HF 841) - Rebalancing the Long - Term Care System - House Vote
April 20, 2005
This sweeping legislation begins the process of rebalancing Iowa's long-term care system, a system that serves persons with disabilities and older Iowans. The bill is intended to begin the process of focusing more resources and placing more emphasis on home and community-based services options, and less on nursing facility and other institutional levels of care.
ALL 100 HOUSE MEMBERS VOTED FOR THIS BILL!
Yea: 100, Nay: 0, Not Voting: 0
Biologically Based Mental Health Parity (HF420) - House Vote
February 28, 2005
This mental health parity bill cover biologically-based illnesses only. Many of the legislators voting "no" did so because they did not believe the bill went far enough. Others were not supportive of insurance mandates.
Democrats Voting FOR HF 420 (39): Paul Bell, Deborah Berry, Polly Bukta, Dennis Cohoon, Swati Dandekar, Mark Davitt, Ro Foege, Wayne Ford, Marcella Frevert, Mary Gaskill, Lisa Heddens, Rob Hogg, David Jacoby, Bob Kressig, Mark Kuhn, Jim Lykam, Kevin McCarthy, Dolores Mertz, Helen Miller, Jo Oldson, Donovan Olson, Rick Olson, Janet Petersen, Dawn Pettengill, Brian Quirk, Mike Reasoner, Nathan Reichert, Tom Schueller, Paul Shomshor, Mark Smith, Todd Taylor, Dick Taylor, Roger Thomas, Roger Wendt, Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, John Whitaker, Wes Whitead, Phil Wise, Ray Zirkelbach
Republicans Voting FOR HF 420 (35): Rich Anderson, Clel Baudler, Carmine Boal, Danny Carroll, Royd Chambers, Betty DeBoef, Cecil Dolecheck, Jeff Elgin, Mary Lou Freeman, Chuck Gipp, Polly Granzow, Dave Heaton, Clarence Hoffman, Dan Huseman, Joseph Hutter, Libby Jacobs, Willard Jenkins, Gerald Jones, Jeff Kaufmann, Steve Lukan, O. Gene Maddox, Mike May, Scott Raecker, Christopher Rants, Henry Rayhons, Rod Roberts, Bill Schickel, Chuck Soderberg, Doug Struyk, Dave Tjepkes, Walt Tomenga, Jodi Tymeson, Linda Upmeyer, Jim Van Fossen, Paul Wilderdyke
Democrats Voting AGAINST HF 420 (8): Ed Fallon, Bruce Hunter, Geri Huser, Pam Jochum, Vicki Lensing, Pat Murphy, Don Shoultz, Kurt Swaim
Democrats Voting AGAINST HF 420 (16): Dwayne Alons, Rich Arnold, Bill Dix, Jack Drake, George Eichhorn, Sandy Greiner, Lance Horbach, Jim Kurtenbach, David Lalk, Steve Olson, Kraig Paulsen, Dan Rasmussen, Tom Sands, Jim Van Engelenhoven, Jim Van Fossen, Ralph Watts
Absent/Not Voting on HF 420: Mary Mascher & Cindy Winckler
Yea: 74, Nay: 24, Not Voting: 2