State Senator Das – Washington Independents

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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

02

Voting record

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

2,669

recorded votes

2,507

yea

157

nay

5

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

19

of 2,669 recorded votes went against the majority of No party listed 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
2022-03-04	ESHB 2037	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (32-16 yea-nay)
2022-03-03	2SHB 1664	1461 Braun Pg 24 Ln 21	Yea	Nay (21-26 yea-nay)
2022-02-09	ESB 5919	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (31-18 yea-nay)
2021-04-19	E2SHB 1477	865 Braun Pg 4 Ln 17	Nay	Yea (25-24 yea-nay)
2021-04-10	2SHB 1028	488 Mullet Striker	Nay	Yea (25-24 yea-nay)
2021-03-09	SB 5352	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (34-15 yea-nay)
2021-01-27	ESSB 5024	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (37-12 yea-nay)
2020-02-19	SSB 6228	988 Short Pg 3 Ln 16	Nay	Yea (36-12 yea-nay)
2019-04-26	E2SSB 5290	Concur in House amendment(s)	Yea	Nay (24-25 yea-nay)
2019-04-26	ESSB 5313	817 Palumbo Pg 1 Ln 21	Nay	Yea (31-16 yea-nay)
2019-04-25	SSB 5652	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (41-7 yea-nay)
2019-04-24	SB 5506	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (42-6 yea-nay)
2019-04-16	SHB 1155	724 King Pg 2 Ln 1	Nay	Yea (26-21 yea-nay)
2019-04-10	ESHB 1788	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (26-18 yea-nay)
2019-04-04	ESHB 1109	493 Rivers Pg 2 Ln 4	Yea	Nay (21-26 yea-nay)
2019-03-19	SR 8615	Adopt	Nay	Yea (27-21 yea-nay)
2019-03-12	E2SSB 5290	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (35-14 yea-nay)
2019-03-11	SB 5506	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (33-14 yea-nay)
2019-03-11	SSB 5652	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (41-7 yea-nay)

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 2,669 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.

61

bills prime-sponsored

16

became law

21

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
2021-22	SB 5010	Credit score/insurance rates	died	yes
2021-22	E2SSB 5022	Recycling, waste, & litter	became law	yes
2021-22	ESSB 5044	Schools/equity training	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5079	Mobile home closure notices	died	yes
2021-22	ESB 5135	Unlawfully summoning police	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5139	Rent increases, limiting	died	yes
2021-22	2SSB 5192	Electric vehicle equipment	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5269	Property tax levy limit calc	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5286	Organic waste goal	died	no
2021-22	E2SSB 5287	Afford. housing incentives	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5339	Juvenile records	died	yes
2021-22	SSB 5378	Real estate broker renewal	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5446	Warehousing & manuf. jobs	died	no
2021-22	SB 5480	Cosmetic products/chemicals	died	no
2021-22	SB 5670	Middle housing near transit	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5697	Recycling system & waste	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5703	Cosmetic products/chemicals	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5713	Limited equity coop. housing	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5731	Organic materials management	died	no
2021-22	SB 5732	Green roofs	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5823	Local infra. project areas	died	yes
2021-22	ESB 5832	Multifamily unit conversion	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5889	Annual mental health exams	died	no
2021-22	SB 5904	Fashion retail disclosures	died	no
2021-22	SB 5915	Diapers/sales & use tax	died	no
2021-22	SB 5932	Sales and use tax rate	died	no
2021-22	SB 5962	Conservation goal, 30%	died	no
2021-22	SJM 8008	Fossil fuel nonproliferation	died	no
2021-22	SJR 8210	Natural resources	died	no
2021-22	SR 8625	Indian farmers/protest	died	no
2021-22	SR 8643	Shree Saini	died	no
2021-22	SR 8644	Sikh American community	died	no
2019-20	SSB 5025	Self-help housing dev./taxes	became law	yes
2019-20	SSB 5106	Natural disaster mitigation	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5107	Trust institutions	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5124	Appraisal mngmt companies	became law	yes
2019-20	ESSB 5323	Plastic bags	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5503	On-site sewage systems	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5545	Recycling	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5821	K-12 national cert. bonuses	died	no
2019-20	SB 5862	Warehousing & manuf. jobs	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5908	Equity training/schools	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5942	Budgeting/servs for children	died	yes
2019-20	SSB 6048	Insurance group supervision	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6212	Affordable housing/prop. tax	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6213	Polystyrene products	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6271	Mobile home closure notices	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6272	Greenhouse gas emissions	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6411	Multiple-unit dwellings/tax	died	yes
2019-20	SSB 6415	Perm. fire district charge	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6474	Sales tax diversification	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6536	Single-family zones	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6622	Photovoltaic modules	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6645	Minimum recycled content	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6659	Autonomous vehicle testing	died	no
2019-20	SB 6684	Electric vehicle readiness	died	no
2019-20	SB 6685	Annual mental wellness exams	died	no
2019-20	SB 6686	Weapons/state capitol	died	no
2019-20	SCR 8412	Legislative modernization	died	yes
2019-20	SR 8639	Sikh American community	died	no
2019-20	SR 8696	Sikh American community	died	no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 61 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

No committee seats on file. The Legislature serves committee rosters only for the current biennium, so a member who served only in an earlier session will show none here. That is our coverage, not an absence of seats.

Last checked 2026-08-07

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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.

No campaign filing matched this member. Matching needs a surname, a given name and a district, and the roster we hold is missing at least one of those for Das. Their filings exist at the PDC; we cannot tie them to this record with enough confidence to publish, and a wrong match would attribute another person’s donors here.

Last checked 2026-08-07

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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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Connected records

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

On the record

SERVED — 2023-24

Senate, Legislative District

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 Das,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/das/

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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.