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Steve Beshear's Voting Records

Vote Smart provides easy access to congressional and state voting records and maintains a collection of key votes grouped by issue. Vote Smart uses the following criteria to select key votes:

  1. The vote should be helpful in portraying how a member stands on a particular issue
  2. The vote should be clear for any person to understand
  3. The vote has received media attention
  4. The vote was passed or defeated by a very close margin
  5. Occasionally, if a specific bill is consistently inquired about on the Voter's Research Hotline, the vote will be added

Vote Smart provides a summary of the version of the bill text associated with each selected key vote. Our summaries are written by Vote Smart's staff and interns, who adhere to our strict policies and procedures in order to guarantee absolute impartiality and accuracy. They do not necessarily reflect the content of the final version of the bill, but rather the version voted on in that stage. While many procedural votes take place before a full chamber vote, our voting stages reflect the final reading of each chamber vote. Each key vote selection is reviewed by the project's community of advisors, who are political scientists and journalists from all fifty states.

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Executive Actions
Bill No. HB 510
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/06/2015
Bill No. HB 299
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/25/2015
Bill No. HB 168
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/20/2015
Bill No. HB 154
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/25/2014
Bill No. HB 301
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/25/2014
Bill No. HB 236
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/25/2014
Bill No. HB 235
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/11/2014
Bill No. HB 407
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/11/2014
Bill No. HB 445
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/10/2014
Bill No. HB 1
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 08/23/2013
Bill No. SB 13
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/04/2013
Bill No. SB 2
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/04/2013
Bill No. HB 279
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 03/22/2013
Bill No. HB 1
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/24/2012
Bill No. HB 267
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/18/2012
Bill No. SB 3
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/11/2012
Bill No. SB 89
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/11/2012
Bill No. HB 265
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/11/2012
Bill No. HB 1
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 01/20/2012
Bill No. HB 1
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 03/25/2011
Bill No. HB 107
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 03/16/2011
Bill No. SB 143
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 03/16/2011
Bill No. SB 110
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 02/24/2011
Bill No. SB 175
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/26/2010
Bill No. SB 178
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/13/2010
Bill No. HB 97
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/12/2010
Bill No. HB 415
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/12/2010
Bill No. HB 330
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 03/23/2009
Bill No. HB 374
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/13/2009
Bill No. HB 144
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 02/13/2009
Bill No. HB 608
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/28/2008
Bill No. HB 79
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/28/2008
Bill No. HB 683
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/24/2008
Bill No. HB 552
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/24/2008
Bill No. HB 406
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/15/2008
Bill No. HB 408
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/14/2008
Bill No. SB 120
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/14/2008
Bill No. HB 186
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/14/2008
We do not have any Key Votes for this candidate.
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