State Representative Dave Paul – 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.

4,951

recorded votes

4,259

yea

388

nay

304

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

233

of 4,951 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	ESHB 2442	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (51-7 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2588 Jacobsen Pg 8 Ln 1	Yea	Nay (9-49 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2543 Marshall Pg 12 Ln 20	Yea	Nay (6-52 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2596 Walen Pg 12 Ln 24	Yea	Nay (9-49 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2604 Reeves Pg 12 Ln 24	Yea	Nay (9-49 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2564 Stuebe Pg 69 Ln 21	Yea	Nay (6-52 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2594 Walen Pg 107 Ln 31	Yea	Nay (9-49 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2586 Barnard Pg 67 Ln 28	Yea	Nay (8-50 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	SB 6137	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (42-16 yea-nay)
2026-03-05	2SSB 5974	2373 Klicker Pg 4 Ln 27	Yea	Nay (5-53 yea-nay)
2026-03-05	2SSB 5974	2389 Goodman Pg 19 Ln 21	Nay	Yea (57-1 yea-nay)
2026-02-28	ESSB 5998	2105 Penner Pg 7 Ln 26	Yea	Nay (8-49 yea-nay)
2026-02-28	ESSB 5998	2104 Valdez Pg 156 Ln 18	Yea	Nay (6-51 yea-nay)
2026-02-28	ESSB 5998	2107 Burnett Pg 168 Ln 8	Yea	Nay (6-51 yea-nay)
2026-02-28	ESSB 5998	2089 Marshall Pg 245 Ln 10	Yea	Nay (6-51 yea-nay)
2026-02-28	ESSB 5998	2110 Connors Pg 383 Ln 9	Yea	Nay (7-50 yea-nay)
2026-02-17	ESHB 2442	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (53-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	E2SHB 2034	1770 Jacobsen Pg 4 Ln 33	Yea	Nay (6-52 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	E2SHB 2034	1774 Griffey Pg 4 Ln 34	Yea	Nay (5-53 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	SHB 2089	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (52-5 yea-nay)
2026-01-29	SHB 2123	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (56-2 yea-nay)
2026-01-29	HJM 4004	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (41-16 yea-nay)
2025-04-26	2SHB 1207	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (54-5 yea-nay)
2025-04-26	HB 2050	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (56-3 yea-nay)
2025-04-24	2SSB 5786	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (51-8 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 233. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 4,951 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.

46

bills prime-sponsored

19

became law

6

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 1182	Parks & rec./interest arb.	pending	yes
2025-26	2SHB 1273	Dual credit program access	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 1401	Nautical NW license plate	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1493	DDA employment services age	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1565	Dual enrollment scholarship	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1568	Financial aid eligibility	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1627	Health plans/annual services	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1724	POLST orders	pending	yes
2025-26	SHB 1791	Local real estate excise tax	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 2324	Child of veteran/tuition	pending	yes
2025-26	E2SHB 2325	Tourism assessment	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 2356	PRA/homicide cases	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2582	Fire dept. civil service	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2638	Spousal survivors/prop. tax.	pending	no
2023-24	SHB 1007	Military service credit	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1058	Commercial driver's licenses	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1146	Dual credit program notice	became law	yes
2023-24	2SHB 1316	Dual credit program access	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1364	Nautical NW license plate	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1721	Skill center class size	died	no
2023-24	HB 1733	Nursing degrees	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1833	Ferry fuel surcharges	died	yes
2023-24	SHB 1979	Inhalers & epinephrine cost	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 2166	POLST access	died	yes
2023-24	HB 2167	LEOFF 2 rehiring	died	no
2023-24	HB 2446	Reforestation grants	died	yes
2021-22	ESHB 1176	Student fines and fees	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1415	Skill center class size	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1519	Levy shifts/court rulings	died	no
2021-22	HB 1700	Derelict vessel removal	became law	yes
2021-22	ESHB 1733	Long-term care/exemptions	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1760	Dual credit program access	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1804	Military service credit	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1805	Opportunity scholarship prog	became law	yes
2021-22	SHB 1867	Dual credit program data	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 2018	Sales and use tax holiday	died	yes
2019-20	SHB 1658	Paraeducators	became law	yes
2019-20	EHB 1846	Off-road vehicle moneys	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 1891	Career & tech. ed. resources	died	no
2019-20	2SHB 1973	Dual enrollment scholarship	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 2029	High poverty learning assist	died	no
2019-20	HB 2542	Child of veteran/tuition	died	yes
2019-20	SHB 2543	In-state residency/veterans	became law	yes
2019-20	SHB 2544	Definition of veteran	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 2841	Skill center class sizes	died	no
2019-20	2SHB 2864	Running start summer pilot	became law	yes

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 46 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce
House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans
House 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 · 3 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.

$76,405

raised, 2026 cycle

$23,248

spent

$631

average contribution

Total divided by 121 reported contributors.

$1.4M

raised across 5 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	$76,405	$23,248	121
2024	$300,532	$257,603	299
2022	$421,718	$427,406	624
2020	$435,511	$433,514	538
2018	$202,284	$198,276	404

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
Jackson Legacy Fund	Seattle	$2,400
Justice for All PAC	Seattle	$2,400
Puget Sound Energy	Bellevue	$2,400
SEIU 775 Quality Care Committee	Seattle	$2,400
House Democratic Campaign Committee	Seattle	$1,368
AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC	Washington	$1,200
Amy C. Gulick	Clinton	$1,200
Building a Stronger Washington	Dallas	$1,200
Christopher W. Gulick	Clinton	$1,200
Delta Dental of Washington	Seattle	$1,200
Evergreen Beauty College	Everett	$1,200
Harry Truman Fund	Seattle	$1,200
Kennedy Fund	Seattle	$1,200
Lumbard Lynnaea	Langley	$1,200
Puget Sound Pilots PAC	Seattle	$1,200

Employers behind more than one donor

Across the whole cycle rather than a single day. Weaker than the table above, and included because a slow accumulation from one workplace is still worth being able to see.

Employers with more than one contributor this cycle
Employer	Donors	Total
Western Washington University	2	$1,000

Only 5.9% 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 Dave Paul to PDC filer PAULD 277 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (10) 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 PAULD 277

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 10	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 10th Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

House, Legislative District 10

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

House, Legislative District 10

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 Representative Dave Paul,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/dave-paul/

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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.