Elected official · Washington State
State Senator Noel Frame
Noel Frame is a Democratic state senator representing Washington's 36th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 111 bills, of which 10 died without a public hearing.
- Democratic
- Senate
- Legislative District 36
- 2 sessions on record
- noel.frame@leg.wa.gov
- phone
- (360) 786-7670
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.
7,069
recorded votes
6,642
yea
375
nay
52
absent or excused
Votes against their own party’s majority
67
of 7,069 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.
| Date | Bill | Motion | They voted | Their party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-12 | ESB 6347 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (20-10 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-17 | E2SSB 6239 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (17-13 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-16 | ESB 6347 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (19-11 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-13 | 2SSB 5968 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (25-5 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-13 | SSB 6160 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (27-3 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-11 | ESB 5872 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (27-3 yea-nay) |
| 2026-01-21 | ESSB 5071 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (21-9 yea-nay) |
| 2025-04-09 | ESHB 1258 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Nay | Yea (28-2 yea-nay) |
| 2025-02-05 | ESSB 5071 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (23-7 yea-nay) |
| 2024-03-04 | SI 2113 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (16-13 yea-nay) |
| 2024-03-04 | SI 2111 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (18-11 yea-nay) |
| 2023-04-19 | HB 1573 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (24-4 yea-nay) |
| 2023-04-17 | ESB 5352 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (16-13 yea-nay) |
| 2023-04-12 | ESHB 1791 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Nay | Yea (15-14 yea-nay) |
| 2023-04-10 | ESHB 1019 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Yea | Nay (13-16 yea-nay) |
| 2023-03-08 | ESB 5352 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (16-13 yea-nay) |
| 2023-03-02 | SSB 5303 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (26-3 yea-nay) |
| 2022-03-04 | ESB 5919 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (86-12 yea-nay) |
| 2022-02-12 | ESHB 2037 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (87-11 yea-nay) |
| 2021-04-24 | SHB 1137 | Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Nay | Yea (84-12 yea-nay) |
| 2021-03-06 | SHB 1137 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (88-10 yea-nay) |
| 2021-03-03 | E2SHB 1186 | 285 Graham Pg 3 Ln 14 | Nay | Yea (59-38 yea-nay) |
| 2021-03-03 | SHB 1446 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (93-4 yea-nay) |
| 2021-03-02 | ESHB 1214 | 300 Klippert Pg 7 Ln 40 | Nay | Yea (64-33 yea-nay) |
| 2020-03-11 | SSB 6068 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (91-6 yea-nay) |
Showing the 25 most recent of 67. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 7,069 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.
111
bills prime-sponsored
26
became law
10
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.
| Session | Bill | Subject | Outcome | Heard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | SB 5121 | Fertility-related services | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5211 | DD parental caregivers | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5266 | Early release petitions | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5269 | Sentence modification | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | SSB 5298 | Mobile home community sale | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5375 | Clergy, duty to report abuse | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5439 | Thermal coal divestment/SIB | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5457 | Broadcasters | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5458 | Newspaper tax preference | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5605 | Microenterprise home kitchen | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5708 | Online services/minors | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5761 | Dependency/attorney appt. | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | ESB 5797 | Intangible assets tax | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | ESSB 5814 | Excise taxes | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 6108 | State shark | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | ESSB 6113 | Tax administration | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 6114 | Excise tax/fixture defined | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 6202 | Medicaid/fertility services | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | ESB 6228 | Prescription drugs/taxes | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 6229 | Small business stock gains | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 6230 | Cash transactions/pennies | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | ESSB 6231 | Data center tax exemptions | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 6294 | Local government fund use | pending | yes |
| 2023-24 | ESB 5130 | Assisted outpatient treat. | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | E2SSB 5198 | Mobile home community sales | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5204 | Fertility services coverage | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5214 | Music therapists | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5216 | Collisions/driver reexam | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5220 | Mutual insurer reorg. | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SSB 5229 | Site readiness grants | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5280 | Clergy/child abuse reporting | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5364 | Lot splitting | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5379 | Associate development orgs. | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5451 | Long sentences review | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5456 | Minimum parking requirements | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5474 | Juvenile justice | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5482 | Margin tax | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5486 | Wealth/property tax | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5543 | Sexual offenses by youth | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5644 | Juvenile records | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5674 | Surplus property/housing | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5706 | Employee-union privilege | died | no |
| 2023-24 | SB 5708 | Microenterprise home kitchen | died | no |
| 2023-24 | SB 5805 | Dependency/attorney appt. | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5807 | Housing authorities | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SSB 5829 | Congenital cytomegalovirus | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5900 | Construction crane safety | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5933 | Infants and toddlers program | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5960 | Prescription labels/abortion | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5967 | Housing/public lands leases | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | ESSB 5974 | Unenforceable LFOs | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 5981 | Early release petitions | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 6037 | Sentence modification | died | no |
| 2023-24 | SSB 6059 | Mobile home community sales | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 6063 | Persistent offenders | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 6191 | Housing/taxes | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SB 6298 | Clergy/child abuse reporting | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | 2SHB 1219 | Youth counsel/dependency | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1258 | Microenterprise home kitchen | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1406 | Wealth tax | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1539 | Bad debts/tax | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1947 | Diaper subsidy/TANF | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 2034 | Juvenile records | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1345 | Correctional officer OT | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | SHB 1403 | Municipal B&O tax apportion. | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1434 | Noncriminal youth detention | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1679 | Councilmanic REET/GMA | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | EHB 1706 | Subminimum wage/disabilities | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1728 | Isolated worker protection | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | SHB 1742 | Juvenile offenses/depictions | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | E2SHB 1874 | Adolescent behavioral health | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1876 | Children's mental health | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1921 | Housing market | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | SHB 2017 | Admin. law judge bargaining | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2031 | Foster parent case aides | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2064 | Juvenile justice | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2117 | State tax structure | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2164 | Leasehold excise tax exempt. | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HB 2685 | K-12 employee sick leave | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HB 2738 | Dev. disability budgeting | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HB 2777 | Microenterprise home kitchen | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | SHB 2794 | Juvenile record sealing | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2795 | Juvenile court/jurisdiction | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2796 | Juvenile sex offense regist. | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2881 | Commercial properties/tax | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 1251 | Youth counsel/dependency | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 1302 | Wage violations, damages for | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | E2SHB 1561 | Open educational resources | became law | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 1672 | Prevailing wage law recovery | became law | yes |
| 2017-18 | SHB 1816 | Homeless youth info. sharing | became law | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 1876 | Exclusive adult jurisdiction | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 1930 | Child custody | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | SHB 2037 | Higher ed. disability wk grp | became law | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 2040 | Tenancy termination notices | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 2059 | Washington investment trust | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 2135 | Pipeline accident mitigation | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 2145 | Aerospace job incentives | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 2687 | Public defense funding | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 2817 | Correctional officer OT | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 2818 | Religious coordinator appt. | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 2895 | Exclusive adult jurisdiction | died | yes |
| 2017-18 | HB 2932 | Juvenile offenses | died | no |
| 2017-18 | HR 4643 | Seattle Pacific University | died | no |
| 2015-16 | SHB 2541 | Involuntary treatment orders | became law | yes |
| 2015-16 | HB 2544 | Affordable housing/prop. tax | died | yes |
| 2015-16 | HB 2736 | Governor appointments/gender | died | yes |
| 2015-16 | HB 2737 | Criminal history/employment | died | no |
| 2015-16 | HB 2825 | Disabled student services | died | yes |
| 2015-16 | HB 2848 | Corps. & money in politics | died | yes |
| 2015-16 | HB 2851 | School director compensation | died | yes |
| 2015-16 | HB 2992 | Large private airplane taxes | died | no |
Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 111 bills across every session held
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Committee seats
2025-26
- Senate Committee on Human Services
- Senate Committee on Ways & Means
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 · 2 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.
$59,451
raised, 2026 cycle
$35,575
spent
$632
average contribution
Total divided by 94 reported contributors.
$236K
raised across 2 campaigns
Every cycle we hold for this filer, not a career total — earlier campaigns may predate our coverage.
By campaign
| Cycle | Raised | Spent | Contributors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $59,451 | $35,575 | 94 |
| 2022 | $176,059 | $159,518 | 530 |
Largest reported contributors
| Contributor | City | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Justice for All PAC | Seattle | $2,400 |
| Kennedy Fund | Seattle | $2,400 |
| SEIU 775 Quality Care Committee | Seattle | $2,400 |
| Entertainment Software Association | Washington | $2,200 |
| WSDC | Seattle | $1,698 |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc. | Minneapolis | $1,600 |
| WA Insurers Political Action Committee | Olympia | $1,250 |
| Boeing PAC | Arlington | $1,200 |
| Coinflip | Chicago | $1,200 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. PAC | Washington | $1,200 |
| Pacific Merchant Shipping Association | Oakland | $1,200 |
| Professional & Technical Employees Local 17 PAC | Seattle | $1,200 |
| Puyallup Tribe of Indians | Tacoma | $1,200 |
| Royal Caribbean Group USA Inc | Miami | $1,200 |
| SEIU Helathcare 1199 NW | Kent | $1,200 |
This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Noel Frame to PDC filer FRAMN 111 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (36) 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 FRAMN 111
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What this page will not compute
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- What the money bought
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- A complete funding career
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- 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
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- Advertising
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- 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.
| Seat | Term | Next election | Filing opens |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senator, District 36 | 4 years | 2030 | May 2030 |
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
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Washington’s 36th Legislative District
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SERVED — 2025-26
Senate, Legislative District 36
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SERVED — 2023-24
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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
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“State Senator Noel Frame,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/noel-frame/
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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.