Elected official · Washington State
State Senator John Lovick
John Lovick is a Democratic state senator representing Washington's 44th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 281 bills, of which 59 died without a public hearing.
- Democratic
- Senate
- Legislative District 44
- 2 sessions on record
- john.lovick@leg.wa.gov
- phone
- (360) 786-7686
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.
13,223
recorded votes
12,492
yea
656
nay
75
absent or excused
Votes against their own party’s majority
91
of 13,223 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-03 | ESHB 2476 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (22-7 yea-nay) |
| 2025-04-22 | ESSB 5041 | Do Not Concur in House Amendment(s) | Nay | Yea (25-4 yea-nay) |
| 2025-04-10 | EHB 1217 | 345 Shewmake Pg 1 Ln 13 | Yea | Nay (6-24 yea-nay) |
| 2025-04-10 | EHB 1217 | 353 Cleveland Pg 21 Ln 8 | Yea | Nay (4-26 yea-nay) |
| 2025-03-03 | SSB 5085 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (28-2 yea-nay) |
| 2024-02-07 | SB 5184 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (19-10 yea-nay) |
| 2023-04-10 | ESHB 1019 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Yea | Nay (13-16 yea-nay) |
| 2023-03-03 | 2E2SSB 5536 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Yea | Nay (14-15 yea-nay) |
| 2022-02-25 | SB 5693 | 1231 Sefzik Pg 32 Ln 24 | Yea | Nay (21-28 yea-nay) |
| 2022-02-25 | SB 5693 | 1209 Gildon Pg 43 Ln 14 | Yea | Nay (22-27 yea-nay) |
| 2022-02-25 | SB 5693 | 1218 Holy Pg 125 Ln 17 | Yea | Nay (23-26 yea-nay) |
| 2022-02-25 | SB 5693 | 1232 Sefzik Pg 125 Ln 17 | Yea | Nay (23-25 yea-nay) |
| 2022-01-12 | SB 5354 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (45-3 yea-nay) |
| 2019-04-16 | SSB 5380 | 707 Gildon Pg 39 Ln 29 | Nay | Yea (61-37 yea-nay) |
| 2018-02-28 | E2SSB 6160 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (58-40 yea-nay) |
| 2018-02-23 | ESHB 2299 | 1085 Hayes Pg 306 Ln 16 | Yea | Nay (48-49 yea-nay) |
| 2017-06-30 | EHB 2242 | Final Passage | Nay | Yea (67-26 yea-nay) |
| 2017-04-20 | ESSB 5131 | Final Passage as recommended by the Conference Committee | Nay | Yea (63-33 yea-nay) |
| 2017-04-12 | ESB 5096 | 512 Harmsworth Pg 15 Ln 25 | Yea | Nay (48-49 yea-nay) |
| 2017-04-12 | ESB 5096 | 513 Harmsworth Pg 15 Ln 25 | Yea | Nay (48-49 yea-nay) |
| 2017-04-11 | ESSB 5131 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (74-24 yea-nay) |
| 2007-04-18 | ESSB 6032 | Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee | Nay | Yea (68-27 yea-nay) |
| 2007-04-04 | ESSB 6032 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (64-30 yea-nay) |
| 2005-04-23 | ESSB 6103 | Final Passage | Yea | Nay (45-53 yea-nay) |
| 2005-04-20 | 2SSB 5202 | Final Passage on Reconsideration | Yea | Nay (24-73 yea-nay) |
Showing the 25 most recent of 91. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 13,223 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.
281
bills prime-sponsored
67
became law
59
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. A further 38 died in sessions whose hearing records the Legislature does not publish, and are not counted here either way.
| Session | Bill | Subject | Outcome | Heard |
|---|
Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 0 bills across every session held
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Committee seats
2025-26
- Senate Committee on Business, Trade & Economic Development
- Senate Committee on Law & Justice
- Senate Committee on Rules
- Senate 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.
$147K
raised, 2026 cycle
$121K
spent
$852
average contribution
Total divided by 172 reported contributors.
$462K
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 | $146,516 | $120,725 | 172 |
| 2022 | $315,142 | $226,121 | 640 |
Largest reported contributors
| Contributor | City | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC | Washington | $2,400 |
| Credit Union Legislative Action Fund | Seatac | $2,400 |
| Jackson Legacy Fund | Seattle | $2,400 |
| Kennedy Fund | Seattle | $2,400 |
| Puget Sound Pilots PAC | Seattle | $2,400 |
| Puyallup Tribe of Indians | Tacoma | $2,400 |
| SEIU 775 Quality Care Committee | Seattle | $2,400 |
| Snohomish Ebony PAC | Mukilteo | $2,400 |
| The Tulalip Tribes of WA | Tulalip | $2,400 |
| USAA | San Antonio | $2,400 |
| WA Charters PAC | Seattle | $2,400 |
| WA State Dental PAC | Seattle | $2,400 |
| Washbank PAC State Fund | Seattle | $2,400 |
| NASH Cascadia Verde LLC | San Diego | $2,000 |
| The Boeing Company PAC/BPAC | Arlington | $2,000 |
This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched John Lovick to PDC filer LOVIJ 012 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) 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 LOVIJ 012
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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.
| Seat | Term | Next election | Filing opens |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senator, District 44 | 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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HOLDS A SEAT IN
Washington’s 44th Legislative District
WA Legislature member roster
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SERVED — 2025-26
Senate, Legislative District 44
WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26
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SERVED — 2023-24
Senate, 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 Senator John Lovick,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-10. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/john-lovick/
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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.