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George Cushingberry (D)
State Representative, District 8
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Missed Votes
- Did not vote on 2005 House Bill 5448 (Require psychiatric facility personnel background checks ). Passed in the House (101 to 3) on February 1, 2006, to concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2005 House Bill 5168 (Mandate nursing home employee criminal background checks ). Passed in the House (101 to 2) on February 1, 2006, to concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2005 House Bill 5104 (Increase truck speed limit ). Passed in the House (90 to 13) on February 1, 2006, to concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2005 House Bill 5281 (Seat some local governments on intercounty drain boards ). Passed in the House (71 to 33) on January 31, 2006. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2006 House Bill 5559 (Authorize additional MEGA tax subsidies ). Passed in the House (105 to 0) on January 26, 2006, to remove from the law authorizing Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) tax breaks a provision that prohibits these from being granted to the Bioport company, which operates a Lansing vaccine laboratory owned by the state before 1995. Also, to make less stringent the requirement that a company seeking to obtain a MEGA tax break must promise to make certain capital investments on plant and equipment within a certain time. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2005 Senate Bill 622 (Mandate adult foster care annual criminal background checks ). Passed in the House (99 to 3) on February 1, 2006, to require adult foster care facilities to perform annual criminal background checks on all employees; and to prohibit a person from working in a facility if he or she had been convicted of a felony within the past 15 years; a misdemeanor that involved abuse, neglect, assault, battery, criminal sexual conduct, fraud, or theft, or a similar state or federal misdemeanor, within the immediately preceding 10 years; been the subject of a substantiated finding of neglect, abuse, or misappropriation of property; or been found not guilty by reason of insanity. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2005 Senate Bill 621 (Mandate nursing home annual criminal background checks ). Passed in the House (98 to 4) on February 1, 2006, to require nursing homes to perform annual criminal background checks on all employees; and to prohibit a person from working in a nursing home if he or she had been convicted of a felony within the past 15 years; a misdemeanor that involved abuse, neglect, assault, battery, criminal sexual conduct, fraud, or theft, or a similar state or federal misdemeanor, within the immediately preceding 10 years; been the subject of a substantiated finding of neglect, abuse, or misappropriation of property; or been found not guilty by reason of insanity. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on an amendment for 2005 House Bill 4982 (Authorize personal property tax credit ). The amendment failed in the House (38 to 37) on December 7, 2005, to prohibit allowing a firm to claim the tax credit if it has violated certain federal pension law regulations. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2005 House Bill 5067 (Ban “alcohol-without-liquid” devices ). Passed in the House (104 to 1) on December 13, 2005, to concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2005 House Bill 5026 (Regulate vehicle theft protection product warranties ). Passed in the House (107 to 0) on December 1, 2005, to concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. [Vote Details and Comments]
