Charlotte O'Hara

Voted against the Johnson County public health order requiring masks inside all public and private school buildings enrolling children through sixth grade; the Board of County Commissioners approved the order 5-2, with O'Hara and Commissioner Michael Ashcraft opposed.

August 5, 2021Against

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Filed a lawsuit as a Johnson County Commissioner against the Blue Valley school district after she was denied entry to a district meeting for declining to wear a mask; Johnson County District Judge Robert Wonnell dismissed the case, ruling she lacked standing under the state law governing objections to COVID-19 restrictions because she was not a district employee, student, parent or guardian.

April 10, 2021Against

Source: kshb.com · researched July 23, 2026

Voted against the 23% pay increase the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners adopted for itself, the first commissioner raise in 13 years; the raise passed 5-2. She objected on the record to folding an automatic 1.5% annual increase into the budget and to commissioners relying on the recommending committee instead of taking a separate annual vote.

December 12, 2024For

Source: johnsoncountypost.com · researched July 23, 2026

Voted against Johnson County's roughly $1.64 billion 2023 budget and its accompanying mill levy, calling the budget bloated, and offered an amendment to cut the property tax rate further that failed; the budget was adopted 5-2 with O'Hara and Commissioner Michael Ashcraft opposed.

September 1, 2022For

Source: olathereporter.com · researched July 23, 2026

Co-sponsored HB 2534, which amended the requirements and penalties for failure to report the death or disappearance of a child and for interference with law enforcement; the bill was approved by the Governor and became law. Speaker Mike O'Neal was the first-named introducer and O'Hara was among the additional introducers.

May 16, 2012For

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Co-sponsored HB 2035, which amended the Kansas statutes regulating late-term and partial-birth abortion and tightened reporting and enforcement; the bill was approved by the Governor and became law. Rep. Lance Kinzer was the first-named introducer and O'Hara was among the additional introducers.

April 12, 2011Against

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Co-sponsored HB 2218 as a Kansas House member in her first term; the bill, which restricted abortion based on the capacity of an unborn child to feel pain and added reporting and civil-action provisions, was approved by the Governor and became law. Rep. Lance Kinzer was the first-named introducer; O'Hara was one of the additional introducers.

April 8, 2011Against

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Co-sponsored HB 2067, the Kansas voter photographic identification bill that required photo ID to vote in person and documentary proof of citizenship to register; the bill was approved by the Governor and took effect July 1, 2011. Rep. Lance Kinzer was the first-named introducer and O'Hara was among the additional introducers.

April 18, 2011Against

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Represented District 27 in the Kansas House of Representatives beginning with the 2011 term, sitting on the House committees on Insurance, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Federal and State Affairs, and Financial Institutions, per her official Kansas Legislature member page verified on this date; she later served on the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners for District 3.

July 23, 2026

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026