Elected official · Washington State

State Representative Brandy Donaghy

Brandy Donaghy is a Democratic state representative representing Washington's 44th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 51 bills, of which 6 died without a public hearing.

  • Democratic
  • House
  • Legislative District 44
  • 2 sessions on record
email
Brandy.Donaghy@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7804

Source Washington State Legislature web services: member roster, roll calls, sponsorship and committee records · as of 2026-08-07

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Candidate vs official

What this member said while seeking the office, set against how they voted once they held it. We state only whether the two records differ — never why.

No stated positions have been collected for this member yet. This comparison needs a quote with a citation — a candidate guide, a town hall transcript, a floor video — found and recorded by a person. There is no feed of things politicians said, so an empty section here means nobody has done that reading, not that the member has never contradicted themselves and not that they have.

Last checked 2026-08-07

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Voting record

Recorded floor votes across every session we hold. Committee votes are not included — those are recorded per committee, not per member.

2,986

recorded votes

2,717

yea

261

nay

8

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

8

of 2,986 recorded votes went against the majority of Democratic colleagues

Counted only where their party had a clear majority on that roll call. A tied party is not a position to diverge from.

Votes against the member’s own party majority
Date Bill Motion They voted Their party
2026-03-06 SB 6137 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (42-16 yea-nay)
2025-04-17 HB 2039 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (53-5 yea-nay)
2025-03-05 SHB 1833 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (53-5 yea-nay)
2024-03-06 E2SSB 6194 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (55-3 yea-nay)
2023-03-24 ESSB 5179 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (51-7 yea-nay)
2023-03-07 E2SHB 1715 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (53-4 yea-nay)
2023-03-06 ESHB 1533 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (53-4 yea-nay)
2022-03-03 SSB 5528 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (50-48 yea-nay)

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 2,986 votes across every session held

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Bills sponsored — and where they stopped

Bills where this member was the prime sponsor. Co-sponsorship is not included; the record we hold names only the prime sponsor.

51

bills prime-sponsored

11

became law

6

died without a public hearing

Introduced, referred, and the session ended without testimony taken. Ordinary rather than exceptional — 44% of all bills that die in Washington die this way.

Bills prime-sponsored by this member
Session Bill Subject Outcome Heard
2025-26 HB 1080 Lodging fee disclosure pending yes
2025-26 SHB 1081 Solicited real estate became law yes
2025-26 HB 1300 Professional accounts pending yes
2025-26 HB 1304 Boundary review filings became law yes
2025-26 HB 1305 Property owners/projects pending yes
2025-26 HB 1315 Impaired driving pending yes
2025-26 HB 1421 Smokey Bear license plates pending no
2025-26 HB 1423 Vehicle noise cameras pending yes
2025-26 HB 1653 Tow truck payments/indigent pending yes
2025-26 HB 1654 International fire code pending yes
2025-26 HB 1810 Seismic hazard risk, reduce pending no
2025-26 ESHB 1878 Young driver safety became law yes
2025-26 HB 1952 Special license plates pending yes
2025-26 HB 1973 Professional license fees pending no
2025-26 HB 1976 Release of pets & plants pending yes
2025-26 HB 1977 Commercial servers of liquor pending yes
2025-26 SHB 2360 Albuterol access in schools became law yes
2025-26 HB 2361 Small loans maximum amount pending yes
2025-26 HB 2362 Impaired driving pending yes
2025-26 HB 2624 Unsolicited real estate tx. became law yes
2025-26 HB 2703 Cottage food operations pending no
2025-26 HR 4615 United States Navy pending no
2025-26 HR 4620 Black history month pending no
2025-26 HR 4701 Black history month pending no
2023-24 ESHB 1277 Paraeducator course of study became law yes
2023-24 HB 1321 Ambulance transport fund died yes
2023-24 HB 1366 First-time home buyers died no
2023-24 HB 1367 Homeless funding died yes
2023-24 HB 1480 All-hazard emergency manage. died yes
2023-24 HB 1668 Vehicular homicide/survivors died yes
2023-24 2SHB 1728 Statewide resiliency program became law yes
2023-24 HB 1771 Relocation assistance became law yes
2023-24 HB 1781 Boater safety and education died yes
2023-24 HB 2108 Smokey Bear license plates died yes
2023-24 HB 2141 Housing in unincorp. areas died yes
2023-24 HB 2196 Alcohol concentration/DUI died yes
2023-24 HB 2273 Functional recovery building died yes
2023-24 HB 2274 Solicited real estate died yes
2023-24 HB 2343 Property owners/projects died yes
2023-24 HB 2344 Boundary review filings died yes
2023-24 ESHB 2384 Traffic safety cameras became law yes
2023-24 HB 2420 Law enforcement training died no
2023-24 HR 4667 Black history month died no
2023-24 HR 4677 Maritime industry/disasters died no
2021-22 SHB 1893 EMTs/public health became law yes
2021-22 EHB 1942 Paraeducator course of study died yes
2021-22 HB 2003 Recycling system & waste died no
2021-22 HB 2010 Homeless budgets & audits died yes
2021-22 HB 2033 Emergency and work zones became law yes
2021-22 HB 2097 First-time home buyer def. died yes
2021-22 HR 4647 National Donate Life Month died no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 51 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

  • House Committee on Consumer Protection & Business
  • House Committee on Education
  • House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans
  • House Committee on Transportation

We cannot say which of these they chair. A committee chair decides what gets a hearing, which makes the role the single most consequential fact in this section — and the roster export records membership without it. Every seat above is shown as an equal membership because that is all the record supports.

Last checked 2026-08-07

Source WA Legislature committee membership records · as of 2026-08-07 · 4 seats

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Who funds this seat

Campaign finance reported to the Public Disclosure Commission. The record and the PDC share no identifier, so this is a join — on surname, given name, chamber and district for a legislator, and on the office won and the county it was won in for everyone else. Only where one person fits.

$61,271

raised, 2026 cycle

$25,553

spent

$839

average contribution

Total divided by 73 reported contributors.

$419K

raised across 3 campaigns

Every cycle we hold for this filer, not a career total — earlier campaigns may predate our coverage.

By campaign

Reported campaign finance by cycle
Cycle Raised Spent Contributors
2026 $61,271 $25,553 73
2024 $111,273 $85,822 124
2022 $246,686 $242,253 296

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
Brandy Donaghy $2,882
USAA San Antonio $2,400
WA Bankers Assn Seattle $2,400
WA Realtors PAC Olympia $2,400
Loschen Matt Redmond $1,800
McMartin Bethany Port Angeles $1,500
Prindle Alex Seattle $1,450
Amazon Seattle $1,200
Anderson Jeff Belfair $1,200
Justice for All PAC Seattle $1,200
Lumen Technologies Service Group LLC Monroe $1,200
Natl Electrical Contractors Assn Puget Sound Chapter Shoreline $1,200
Nelson Arne Issaquah $1,200
Pacific Merchant Shipping Assn Oakland $1,200
Puget Sound Energy Bellevue $1,200

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Brandy Donaghy to PDC filer DONAB 208 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (44) all agree, and because only one person fits. If that is the wrong person, tell us at corrections@washingtonindependents.org and we will unpublish this section while we check — see Corrections.

Last checked 2026-08-07

Source Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings · as of 2026-08-07 · filer DONAB 208

The original filing at the PDC

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

What the money bought
Where a filing is matched we show what was raised and from whom. Connecting that to how the member voted would be a causal claim from two records that were never linked, and campaign money is not the only thing that moves a vote.
A complete funding career
Cycles are shown back to 2009. A member who served before that has earlier campaigns we do not hold, so the career total is a floor rather than a lifetime figure.
Employers we cannot see
The employer field is filled in by the donor and left blank more often than not, so the bundling table shows employers we can see rather than every one that exists.
Whether a difference was a broken promise
Where a stated position and a vote differ we show both records and say only that they differ. Why is not in either one — an amendment, a procedural vote, or a bill that changed under the member all produce the same pair.
A complete set of statements
Positions are found and cited one at a time by a person. An empty or short list means nobody has done that reading, not that a member has said little.
Advertising
Meta’s ad library and PDC independent expenditures targeting this member are both public and neither is loaded.
What a divergent vote means
We can say a member voted against their party’s majority on a given roll call. Whether that was principle, a local interest, a drafting objection or a trade is not in the record, and the count is not a measure of independence.
Committee influence
Chair and ranking-member roles decide which bills get heard. The roster gives membership without role, so every seat here looks alike.
A member’s response
The design reserves space for one. We have no process yet for soliciting or publishing it, so the section is absent rather than empty.

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How to run for this office

This is an office, not a possession. Every seat here is filled by whoever files for it and wins, and the requirements are the same for everyone.

Filing requirements and next election by seat
Seat Term Next election Filing opens
State Representative, District 44 2 years 2026 May 2026

What the job is. The Legislature sits for 105 days in odd-numbered years and 60 days in even ones, and the work does not stop when the session does — committee days, constituent casework and district meetings run through the interim. Someone deciding whether to file needs that more than they need anyone’s opinion of the incumbent.

Reporting follows money, not candidacy. Registering with the Public Disclosure Commission and filing contribution reports is triggered by raising and spending, not by putting your name in. A campaign that stays under the mini-reporting threshold files a short form and nothing more.

We cannot yet tell you what filing costs. The fee is one percent of the office’s annual salary (RCW 29A.24.091 — one percent of the annual salary of the office), which makes it a specific dollar amount rather than a rule — and a page that makes you compute your own filing fee has not told you the filing fee. Legislative salaries are set by the Citizens’ Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials and we do not hold that schedule, so the figure is missing rather than estimated. A candidate who cannot pay it may file a petition of signatures instead.

Source Election cycle derived from past regular elections in PDC candidate filings; requirements from RCW 29A.24 — candidate filing · as of 2026-08-07

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Connected records

Every link this page draws, grouped by how well a document supports it.

On the record

  • HOLDS A SEAT IN

    Washington’s 44th Legislative District

    WA Legislature member roster

  • SERVED — 2025-26

    House, Legislative District 44

    WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26

  • SERVED — 2023-24

    House, Legislative District 44

    WA Legislature member roster, 2023-24

Nothing on file

No funding edge is published. Campaign finance and the Legislature roster share no key, and matching people by name across the two produces wrong pairs often enough to be worse than nothing. No lobbying edge either: Washington lobbying filings name neither bills nor legislators.

Source WA Legislature member roster · as of 2026-08-07

Cite this page

This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.

“State Representative Brandy Donaghy,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/brandy-donaghy/

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Where this page comes from

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

WA Legislature member roster
Name, party, district, chamber and contact details, per session served.
WA Legislature roll call service
Every recorded floor vote. Committee votes are recorded per committee rather than per member and are not included.
Party divergence
Derived, not published by the Legislature. For each roll call we take the majority position of the member’s own party and flag votes against it, counting only roll calls where that party had a clear majority.
WA Legislature legislation records
Prime sponsorship, and each bill’s outcome and hearing status. Co-sponsorship is not in the record we hold.
Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings
Contributions, expenditures, the largest reported contributors and their stated employers, for every cycle back to 2007. Matched on surname and given name plus chamber and district for a legislator, or the office won and the county it was won in for everyone else — never on name alone — and only published where one person fits. Across the record that resolves 1,938 of 13,879 officials over 3,548 cycles, with 45 refused as ambiguous; the rest say why they did not match.
Not loaded
Public statements, advertising, committee roles, and committee votes by member.