Due to popular demand, here again is the vote count of how Kansas House legislators voted on the coal bill, HB 2014. This was the final House vote - 74-48 - that sent the measure to the Governor's desk. 84 votes are required for a veto-proof majority.
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Votes against the coal bill - 48
Ballard, Benlon, T. Brown, Burroughs, Carlin, Crow, Davis, Dillmore,
Finney, Flaharty, Frownfelter, Furtado, Garcia, D. Gatewood, S.
Gatewood, Goyle, Hawk, Henderson, Henry, Huntington, Kuether, Lane,
Loganbill, Long, Mah, McCray-Miller, Menghini, Merrick, Neighbor,
Peterson, Pottorff, Quigley, Rardin, Ruiz, Sawyer, Slattery, Sloan,
Spalding, Svaty, Swenson, Talia, Tietze, Trimmer, Ward, Watkins, Winn,
K. Wolf, Worley.
Votes for the coal bill - 74
Aurand, Bethell, Bowers, Brookens, A. Brown, Brunk, Burgess, Carlson,
Colloton, Craft, Crum, DeGraaf, Donohoe, Faber, Feuerborn, Fund,
George, Goico, Gordon, Grange, Hayzlett, Hermanson, Hineman, C. Holmes,
M. Holmes, Horst, Huebert, Jack, Johnson, Kelley, Kerschen, King,
Kinzer, Kleeb, Knox, Landwehr, Light, Lukert, Maloney, Mast, McLeland,
Morrison, Moxley, Myers, Navinsky, Neufeld, O’Brien, O’Neal, Olson,
Otto, Palmer, Patton, Pauls, Peck, Phelps, Powell, Prescott, Proehl,
Rhoades, Roth, Schroeder, Schwab, Schwartz, Seiwert, Shultz, Siegfreid,
Swanson, Tafanelli, Vickrey, Wetta, Whitham, Williams, B. Wolf, Yoder.
Absent or not voting: Grant, Hill, Kiegerl.
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