2015 House Bill 4447 ↩

Senate Roll Call 272: Passed

To increase the license fees for hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and other health care facilities. Also, to extend a “Michigan Medicaid Quality Assurance Assessment” (MMQAA) tax on nursing homes for another four years, which is a bed tax used to “game” the federal Medicaid matching funds formula to generate more federal money for Michigan’s medical welfare programs.

32 Yeas / 6 Nays

Republican (21 Yeas / 6 Nays)

Booher (R-35) Casperson (R-38) Green (R-31) Hansen (R-34) Hildenbrand (R-29) Horn (R-32) Jones (R-24) Knollenberg (R-13) Kowall (R-15) MacGregor (R-28) Marleau (R-12) Meekhof (R-30) Nofs (R-19) O’Brien (R-20) Proos (R-21) Robertson (R-14) Schmidt (R-37) Schuitmaker (R-26) Shirkey (R-16) Stamas (R-36) Zorn (R-17)	Brandenburg (R-8) Colbeck (R-7) Emmons (R-33) Hune (R-22) Pavlov (R-25) Rocca (R-10)

Democrat (11 Yeas / 0 Nays)

Ananich (D-27) Bieda (D-9) Gregory (D-11) Hertel (D-23) Hood (D-3) Hopgood (D-6) Johnson (D-2) Knezek (D-5) Smith (D-4) Warren (D-18) Young (D-1)