State Senator Shelly Short – Washington Independents

01

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

02

Voting record

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

12,272

recorded votes

9,333

yea

2,844

nay

95

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

2,716

of 12,272 recorded votes went against the majority of Republican 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
2026-03-10	E2SHB 2325	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (14-5 yea-nay)
2026-03-10	ESSB 6110	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (15-4 yea-nay)
2026-03-10	ESSB 6162	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (11-8 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	E2SHB 1903	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (5-13 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	E2SHB 2215	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (11-7 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	ESHB 2225	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (13-5 yea-nay)
2026-03-05	HB 2353	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	E2SHB 2416	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (9-10 yea-nay)
2026-02-28	SSB 5647	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (9-10 yea-nay)
2026-02-17	SSB 5924	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (9-10 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	2SSB 5292	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (13-5 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	SSB 6079	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (7-11 yea-nay)
2026-02-12	SB 6278	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (16-3 yea-nay)
2026-02-11	SSB 5346	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (13-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-11	ESSB 5374	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (13-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-11	ESSB 6110	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (12-7 yea-nay)
2026-02-06	SSB 5185	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2026-02-04	SSB 6014	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (11-8 yea-nay)
2025-04-19	SSB 5790	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (11-7 yea-nay)
2025-04-18	E2SSB 5217	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (11-8 yea-nay)
2025-04-17	ESSB 5184	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Yea	Nay (8-11 yea-nay)
2025-04-16	EHB 1185	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (7-12 yea-nay)
2025-04-16	SHB 1418	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (8-11 yea-nay)
2025-04-16	ESHB 1971	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2025-04-15	ESHB 1562	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (11-8 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 2716. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 12,272 votes across every session held

03

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.

140

bills prime-sponsored

32

became law

37

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	SSB 5165	Deer and elk damage	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 5170	DNR boundary line adjust.	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5171	Wolf predation	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5173	County comprehensive plans	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5334	DNR civil enforcement appeal	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 5343	NE WA wolf-livestock account	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 5354	Gray wolf management	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5429	State building code council	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5707	Subscriber emails/PRA	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5893	Forest health appropriation	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5896	Water quality pollution	pending	no
2025-26	ESB 5899	Chiropractic/animals	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5905	Port workers PERS membership	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5908	WDFW public participation	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5941	Schools/renewable energy	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5959	Charity care residency	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5960	Ungulate populations	pending	yes
2025-26	SJM 8015	Federal wildfire response	pending	yes
2025-26	SR 8652	Mary Selecky	pending	no
2025-26	SR 8688	Dairy farms	pending	no
2023-24	SB 5007	Wine retailer shippers	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5029	School district boards	died	no
2023-24	SB 5043	Power plant long-term policy	died	no
2023-24	SB 5065	Bone marrow donation/schools	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5066	Health care benefit managers	became law	yes
2023-24	SSB 5145	Liability/hydro. projects	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5146	Hydropower	died	no
2023-24	SB 5227	Sex-selection abortions	died	no
2023-24	SSB 5306	WDFW disease interdiction	became law	yes
2023-24	SSB 5374	County critical areas	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5411	Naturopathic physician scope	died	no
2023-24	SB 5457	Small cities/GMA	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5508	Greenhouses	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5673	Forest practices board	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5676	Behavioral health siting	died	no
2023-24	SSB 5834	Urban growth areas	became law	yes
2023-24	SSB 5869	Rural fire district stations	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5976	Dogs at large	died	yes
2023-24	SB 6070	Most serious offenses	died	no
2023-24	SSB 6140	Intensive rural development	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 6206	Water system receivership	died	yes
2023-24	SR 8632	Camp Gifford, Deer lake	died	no
2023-24	SR 8660	Victims of stalking	died	no
2021-22	SB 5060	Preservation of water rights	died	no
2021-22	SB 5072	Birth cert., stillbirth	died	no
2021-22	SB 5168	Electric utility advisory	died	yes
2021-22	2ESSB 5275	Intense rural dev. areas	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5276	Significant legislative rule	died	no
2021-22	SB 5277	Early achievers prg/suspend	died	no
2021-22	SB 5308	Hybrid vehicle fees	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5314	GMA/standing & science	died	yes
2021-22	ESB 5356	Public works/bidding	became law	yes
2021-22	2SSB 5368	Rural economic development	became law	yes
2021-22	ESSB 5593	Urban growth area boundaries	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5594	Bone marrow donation aware.	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5601	School district boards	died	no
2021-22	SB 5640	Motion picture program/rural	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5641	Greenhouses	died	yes
2021-22	SSB 5678	Energy project orders	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5876	Noise/essential services	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5193	GMA/rural development	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5194	Urban growth area boundaries	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5241	Natural resources rulemaking	died	no
2019-20	SB 5242	Rural county economic dev.	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5243	Growth mngmt board standing	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5244	Domestic violence registry	died	no
2019-20	SB 5245	Critical area designation	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5308	Energy service contractors	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5524	GMA/agency obligations	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5525	Whitetail deer population	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5731	School district territory	died	yes
2019-20	2ESB 5887	Prior authorization	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5982	Pharmacy benefit managers	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6178	Adding superior court judges	died	no
2019-20	SB 6290	School benefit eligibility	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6359	Home health shortage areas	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6543	PRA/subsequent discovery	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6620	Unemployment insur./location	died	no
2019-20	SJM 8005	Biochar	died	yes
2019-20	SR 8609	Fredi Simpson	died	no
2019-20	SR 8674	George R. Nethercutt, Jr.	died	no
2017-18	SHB 1189	Massage therapy exemptions	became law	yes
2017-18	HB 1403	Silicon smelters/taxes	died	yes
2017-18	ESHB 1465	Wolf depredation/public recs	became law	yes
2017-18	ESHB 1503	On-site sewage sys. mandates	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 5754	Noxious weeds on state lands	died	yes
2017-18	SB 5755	GMA populat. growth criteria	died	yes
2017-18	SSB 5790	GMA economic dev. element	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 5794	Trust water rights program	died	yes
2017-18	SB 5954	GMA economic dev. element	died	no
2017-18	SB 5958	DNR/significant actions	died	yes
2017-18	SSB 6155	Bone marrow donation info.	became law	yes
2017-18	ESSB 6157	Health plan prior auth.	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 6510	Benefit managers	died	no
2017-18	SR 8673	Don Nelson	died	no
2017-18	SR 8674	Charlie Groth	died	no
2017-18	SR 8676	Dave Eubank	died	no
2015-16	HB 1011	Climate zones, counties in	became law	yes
2015-16	HB 1137	Geologists & well operators	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1199	Species status/F&W comm.	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1676	Wild ungulates, predation	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1677	Forest fires & firefighters	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1881	Carbon content of fuel	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1933	Group B water systems	died	no
2015-16	HB 2061	Group B water systems	died	yes
2015-16	HB 2643	School district procedures	died	no
2015-16	HB 2889	School board absences	died	yes
2015-16	HB 2927	Telemedicine/mental health	died	no
2015-16	HB 2941	School bathrooms	died	no
2015-16	HB 2977	Silicon smelters/taxes	died	yes
2013-14	HB 1112	Science and public policy	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 1113	Science and public policy	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 1191	Livestock protection	died	yes
2013-14	SHB 1192	Veterans with disabilities	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 1347	Hydroelectric generation/BPA	died	yes
2013-14	HB 1619	Suspending growth mgmt act	died	no
2013-14	HB 2112	Hydroelectric generation/BPA	died	yes
2013-14	HB 2113	Contractor registration	died	yes
2013-14	HB 2249	2 climate zones/bldg codes	died	yes
2013-14	SHB 2261	Science use/agency actions	became law	yes
2013-14	SHB 2262	Science use/agency actions	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 2676	Hydroelectric generation/BPA	died	no
2011-12	HB 1307	Science & public policy	died	yes
2011-12	HB 1433	Prevailing rate of wage	died	yes
2011-12	HB 1592	Suspending growth mgmt act	died	no
2011-12	HB 1611	Early learning/child care	died	yes
2011-12	HB 1737	DSHS pharmacy audit program	died	yes
2011-12	HB 2208	Honor and remember flag	died	no
2011-12	HB 2335	Science and public policy	died	yes
2011-12	HJM 4003	Western climate initiative	died	no
2011-12	HJM 4004	Honor and remember flag	died	yes
2009-10	HB 1831	Pet & livestock owner rights	died	yes
2009-10	HB 2086	Animal ID system	died	yes
2009-10	HB 2091	Grandparent visitation right	died	no
2009-10	HB 2092	Dependency proceedings	died	yes
2009-10	HB 2276	School construction funding	died	yes
2009-10	HB 2439	Church property/farmers mrkt	died	yes
2009-10	HB 2509	DNR/firefighting funds use	died	yes
2009-10	HB 2653	Greenhouse gas reporting	died	no
2009-10	HB 3000	Pharmacy reimbursement rates	died	no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 140 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources
Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology
Senate Committee on Rules
Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections

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.

$141K

raised, 2026 cycle

$38,187

spent

$1,183

average contribution

Total divided by 119 reported contributors.

$629K

raised across 4 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	$140,835	$38,187	119
2022	$243,695	$242,032	316
2018	$117,123	$151,308	192
2017	$127,509	$68,896	198

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
SHELLY FOR STATE SURPLUS ACCOUNT	Colville	$10,000
Sabey Corporation	Seattle	$3,000
ABC PAC, WA	Spokane	$2,400
Amazon.com Services LLC	Seattle	$2,400
BNSF RAILWAY	Fort Worth	$2,400
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe	Sequim	$2,400
KAISER ALUMINUM	Foothill Ranch	$2,400
MACPAC	Olympia	$2,400
Microsoft Corporation	Redmond	$2,400
PMI US Corporate Services	Washington	$2,400
Puyallup Tribe of Indians	Tacoma	$2,400
Smith Brad	Bellevue	$2,400
T-Mobile USA, Inc.	Bellevue	$2,400
The Boeing Company PAC	Arlington	$2,400
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation	Nespelem	$2,400

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Shelly Short to PDC filer SHORS 101 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (7) 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 SHORS 101

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 Senator, District 7	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

HOLDS A SEAT IN

Washington’s 7th Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

Senate, Legislative District 7

WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26
SERVED — 2023-24

Senate, Legislative District 7

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

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“State Senator Shelly Short,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/shelly-short/

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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.