Live from the House Chamber: HB1204

99 members are present (Rep. J.R. Rogers is absent)

1:40 p.m.: Gregg Reep is presenting HB1204, which is the funding mechanism for the statewide trauma system and other healthcare initiatives. The bill increases the tax on cigarettes by 56 cents per pack and includes an OTP tax on smokeless tobacco.

1:55 p.m.: Reep is now accepting questions from Rep. Stephanie Flowers and Tracy Pennartz

2:00 p.m.: Rep. Frank Glidewell is speaking against the bill.

2:05 p.m.: Speaker Wills is speaking for the bill.

2:10 p.m.: Rep. Bryan King is speaking against the bill.

2:12 p.m.: Rep. Billy Gaskill is speaking for the bill.

2:17 p.m.: Rep. Dunn moves for immediate consideration, and the motion passes.

The bill passes by a vote of 75-24.

Roll call

(Democrat,   Republican,    Green)

Yes Abernathy Allen T. Baker Betts Blount T. Bradford Breedlove J. Brown M. Burris Carroll Cash Cheatham Cole Cook Cooper L. Cowling Creekmore Dale Davenport Davis J. Dickinson Dunn J. Edwards Everett Gaskill

George R. Green Hall Hardy Harrelson Hawkins House Hoyt Hyde Ingram Kidd W. Lewellen Lindsey Lovell Lowery Maloch Maxwell McCrary McLean Moore Nickels Nix Overbey Patterson Pennartz

Perry Pierce Powers Pyle Ragland Rainey Reep Reynolds J. Roebuck T. Rogers Sample Saunders Shelby G. Smith L. Smith Stewart Summers Tyler Wagner Webb Wells B. Wilkins Williams Wills Word

No Adcock Baird Barnett J. Burris Carnine Carter Clemmer Dismang English Flowers Garner Glidewell Greenberg Hobbs Hopper D. Hutchinson Kerr King Lea S. Malone M. Martin Rice Slinkard Woods Absent J.R. Rogers