State Representative Chipalo Street – 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.

2,526

recorded votes

2,251

yea

251

nay

24

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

13

of 2,526 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
2026-03-11	ESB 6347	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (49-8 yea-nay)
2026-02-14	ESHB 2303	1720 Walsh Pg 1 Ln 5	Nay	Yea (35-22 yea-nay)
2026-01-29	HB 1269	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (46-12 yea-nay)
2025-03-10	2SHB 1990	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (41-16 yea-nay)
2024-03-04	HI 2113	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (38-20 yea-nay)
2024-03-04	HI 2111	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (37-21 yea-nay)
2024-02-15	HB 2454	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (30-26 yea-nay)
2023-05-16	2E2SSB 5536	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (48-9 yea-nay)
2023-04-23	2E2SSB 5536	Final Passage as recommended by the Conference Committee	Nay	Yea (43-15 yea-nay)
2023-04-22	EHB 1324	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (50-8 yea-nay)
2023-04-11	2E2SSB 5536	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (51-5 yea-nay)
2023-04-10	ESB 5352	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (38-19 yea-nay)
2023-02-28	ESHB 1584	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (51-6 yea-nay)

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 2,526 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.

35

bills prime-sponsored

11

became law

3

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 1319	Wealth tax	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1320	Business & occupation tax	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1512	Traffic safety	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1550	Electric vehicle batteries	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1611	Unmanned aircrafts/foreign	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1755	Coronary interventions/CN	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 1756	Lead in cookware	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1986	Vehicles for rental/tax	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2019	Estate tax	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2082	Tax rates/cap. gains, estate	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2480	Residential dev./zones	pending	yes
2025-26	SHB 2539	Inmate funds	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 2567	College scholarships/private	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2610	Nonprofit housing providers	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 2730	Aerospace tax preferences	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2734	Sugar-sweetened beverages	pending	no
2025-26	HJM 4003	Fossil fuel treaty	pending	yes
2025-26	HJM 4010	Aysenur Ezgi Eygi killing	pending	no
2023-24	E2SHB 1170	Climate response strategy	became law	yes
2023-24	SHB 1254	Periodic adjustments/DOR	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1303	Property tax administration	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1513	Traffic safety	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1553	Batteries/environment	died	no
2023-24	HB 1640	Pardons and commutations	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1657	Marriages by federal judges	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1795	Estate tax	died	yes
2023-24	SHB 1947	Technology governance	became law	yes
2023-24	SHB 2012	Rental housing/nonprofits	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 2262	Tire rolling resistance	died	yes
2023-24	HB 2299	DNR trust asset leasing	died	yes
2023-24	SHB 2348	County hospital funding	became law	yes
2023-24	E2SHB 2354	Tax increment areas	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 2501	Electric vehicle batteries	died	no
2023-24	HJM 4003	Fossil fuel nonproliferation	died	yes
2023-24	HJM 4004	DC statehood	died	no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 35 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

House Committee on Appropriations
House Committee on Environment & Energy
House Committee on Finance
House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans

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

05

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.

$20,000

raised, 2026 cycle

$13,968

spent

$870

average contribution

Total divided by 23 reported contributors.

$283K

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	$20,000	$13,968	23
2024	$90,235	$42,823	102
2022	$172,815	$163,657	398

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
DaVita	Federal Way	$1,200
Delta Dental of WA	Seattle	$1,200
Gilead Sciences Inc	Raleigh	$1,200
Jackson Legacy Fund	Seattle	$1,200
Professional and Technical Employees Local 17 PAC / PROTEC17	Seattle	$1,200
Proliance Surgeons PAC State Account	Seattle	$1,200
Puget Sound Energy	Bellevue	$1,200
SEIU 775 Quality Care Committee	Seattle	$1,200
SEIU Healthcare 1199NW United for Quality Care	Kent	$1,200
WA State Auto Dealers PaC	Renton	$1,200
WASHBANKPAC State Account	Seattle	$1,200
Can Manufacturers Institute	Washington	$1,000
Deloitte Services LP	Nashville	$1,000
Royal Caribbean Group USA Inc	Miami	$1,000
Enterprise Holdings Inc PAC	Saint Louis	$700

Colleagues who gave on the same day

Three or more people sharing an employer, giving to one of this member’s campaigns on a single date. Money arriving together is the pattern; a shared employer on its own is not. Across every campaign we hold, not just the most recent.

Same-day contributions from colleagues at one employer
Date	Cycle	Employer	Donors	Total
2022-10-19	2022	Microsoft	7	$1,050
2022-06-02	2022	Microsoft	6	$6,500
2022-07-20	2022	Microsoft	5	$1,550
2022-05-13	2022	Microsoft	5	$750
2022-05-19	2022	Microsoft	4	$650
2022-07-24	2022	Microsoft	3	$2,750
2022-09-21	2022	Microsoft	3	$2,500
2022-10-26	2022	Microsoft	3	$2,500
2022-06-22	2022	Microsoft	3	$1,800
2022-05-25	2022	Microsoft	3	$1,200
2022-10-12	2022	Microsoft	3	$1,200

This shows money arriving together, not who arranged it. An office collection, a fundraiser one colleague hosted, a firm’s partners each writing a cheque on the day they were asked — all three look identical in the filings, and all three are legal. Nothing here says the employer knew, still less that it directed anyone. The record gives the date and the shared workplace; the reason is not in it.

Last checked 2026-08-07

Only 0% of named donors stated an employer. The field is filled in by the donor and left blank more often than not, so both tables show what we can see rather than everything that exists. Treat the counts as a floor. Occupations reported in the employer box — “retired”, “self-employed”, “homemaker” — are excluded, because they are not a shared workplace.

Last checked 2026-08-07

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Chipalo Street to PDC filer STREC–442 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (37) 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 STREC–442

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 37	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 37th Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

House, Legislative District 37

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

House, Legislative District 37

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 Chipalo Street,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-10. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/chipalo-street/

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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.