State Representative Debra Entenman – 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

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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.

4,951

recorded votes

4,430

yea

392

nay

129

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

39

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
2026-02-17	ESHB 2168	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (42-16 yea-nay)
2026-02-16	E2SHB 2251	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (56-2 yea-nay)
2025-04-25	ESSB 5041	Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee	Nay	Yea (51-6 yea-nay)
2025-04-16	SSB 5587	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (50-9 yea-nay)
2025-04-12	ESSB 5041	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (52-7 yea-nay)
2025-03-04	HB 1172	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (55-1 yea-nay)
2024-03-04	HI 2113	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (38-20 yea-nay)
2024-02-27	SSB 5925	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (57-1 yea-nay)
2024-02-12	ESHB 1304	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (51-7 yea-nay)
2024-02-12	ESHB 1893	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (53-5 yea-nay)
2023-04-22	EHB 1324	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (50-8 yea-nay)
2023-04-10	ESB 5352	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (38-19 yea-nay)
2023-04-07	2SSB 5454	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (53-4 yea-nay)
2023-04-06	SSB 5453	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (55-1 yea-nay)
2023-03-16	HB 1573	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (39-19 yea-nay)
2023-03-08	HB 1730	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (45-12 yea-nay)
2023-03-01	SHB 1047	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (53-4 yea-nay)
2023-02-28	2SHB 1391	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (55-2 yea-nay)
2023-02-28	ESHB 1584	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (51-6 yea-nay)
2022-03-07	ESHB 2076	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (56-42 yea-nay)
2022-03-04	ESB 5919	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (86-12 yea-nay)
2022-02-26	ESHB 1530	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (84-11 yea-nay)
2022-02-23	ESHB 2076	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (55-42 yea-nay)
2022-02-12	ESHB 1169	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (53-45 yea-nay)
2021-03-09	SHB 1330	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (57-39 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 39. 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

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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.

32

bills prime-sponsored

12

became law

4

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 1556	HS completers/CTC tuition	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 1843	Students/unemployment ins.	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1950	Subcontractors, indemnifying	pending	yes
2025-26	ESHB 2015	Public safety funding	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 2458	College grant/credential prg	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2498	Nursing education programs	pending	yes
2025-26	ESHB 2508	Office of independent inves.	became law	yes
2025-26	HR 4674	Western Governors University	pending	no
2023-24	HB 1507	Fair housing training	died	yes
2023-24	2SHB 1559	Postsecondary student needs	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1706	Microenterprise home kitchen	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1790	Cannabis social equity	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1930	Office of indep. investig.	died	no
2023-24	HB 1953	Dept. of licensing documents	died	yes
2023-24	SHB 2086	Office of indep. invest.	became law	no
2021-22	ESHB 1267	Police use of force	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1507	Indep. prosecutions/police	died	yes
2021-22	ESHB 1521	Warehousing & manuf. jobs	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1748	Human trafficking/ABD prog.	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1943	Basic ed./caseload forecast	died	no
2021-22	HB 1962	Charter school time frame	died	no
2021-22	HB 2047	Fair housing training	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1055	No-contact orders/arrest	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 1527	Working families' tax credit	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1714	High school diplomas by CTC	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 1715	Withholding of transcripts	died	yes
2019-20	2SHB 1893	Postsecondary student assist	became law	yes
2019-20	EHB 1948	Warehousing & manuf. jobs	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2104	International medical grads	died	no
2019-20	SHB 2441	TANF access	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 2856	Facial recog. moratorium	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2911	Charitable solicitation/road	died	yes

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 32 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary
House Committee on Housing
House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce
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 · 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.

$23,427

raised, 2026 cycle

$31,314

spent

$837

average contribution

Total divided by 28 reported contributors.

$617K

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	$23,427	$31,314	28
2024	$72,604	$55,498	59
2022	$97,464	$111,303	145
2020	$87,737	$88,655	175
2018	$335,855	$324,634	417

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
The Boeing Company PAC	Arlington	$2,400
WA Refuse and Recycling Association PAC	Lacey	$1,800
Evergreen Beauty College	Everett	$1,200
Justice for All PAC	Seattle	$1,200
League of Education Voters	Seattle	$1,200
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe	Auburn	$1,200
Puget Sound Pilots PAC	Seattle	$1,200
SEIU 775 Quality Care Committee	Seattle	$1,200
SEIU Healthcare 1199 NW PAC	Kent	$1,200
WA Beer & Wine Distributors Association	Olympia	$1,200
WA Beverage Associaion PAC	Olympia	$1,200
Children's Campaign Victory Fund	Seattle	$1,000
Washington State Democratic Central Committee	Seatle	$800
DEBRA Jean ENTENMAN		$677
Dealers Auto Action NW	Spokane	$600

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
2018-10-22	2018	HEALTHPOINT	3	$600

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 Debra Entenman to PDC filer ENTED 031 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (47) 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 ENTED 031

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 47	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 47th Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

House, Legislative District 47

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

House, Legislative District 47

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 Debra Entenman,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/debra-entenman/

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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.