Elected official · Washington State

State Senator Emily Alvarado

Emily Alvarado is a Democratic state senator representing Washington's 34th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 45 bills, of which 1 died without a public hearing.

  • Democratic
  • Senate
  • Legislative District 34
  • 2 sessions on record
email
Emily.Alvarado@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7667

Source Washington State Legislature web services: member roster, roll calls, sponsorship and committee records · as of 2026-08-07

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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.

2,581

recorded votes

2,464

yea

115

nay

2

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

33

of 2,581 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
2026-03-12 ESB 6347 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (20-10 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 E2SSB 6066 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (29-1 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 SB 6137 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (27-3 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 2ESHB 1210 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (20-10 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 ESHB 2168 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (24-6 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 ESHB 2274 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (26-4 yea-nay)
2026-02-17 E2SSB 6066 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (27-3 yea-nay)
2026-02-17 E2SSB 6239 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (17-13 yea-nay)
2026-02-16 ESB 6347 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (19-11 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 SB 5536 Final Passage Nay Yea (23-7 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 2SSB 5968 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (25-5 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 SSB 6160 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (27-3 yea-nay)
2026-01-21 ESSB 5071 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (21-9 yea-nay)
2025-04-26 ESHB 1293 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (27-2 yea-nay)
2025-04-15 ESHB 1293 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (27-2 yea-nay)
2025-04-14 SHB 1061 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (26-4 yea-nay)
2025-04-08 2SHB 1990 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (26-3 yea-nay)
2025-03-10 SJR 8201 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (25-5 yea-nay)
2025-02-28 SSB 5408 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (23-7 yea-nay)
2025-02-12 SSB 5323 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (28-2 yea-nay)
2024-03-04 HI 2081 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (43-15 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)
2024-03-01 SSB 6301 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (52-6 yea-nay)
2024-02-15 HB 2454 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (30-26 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 33. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 2,581 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.

45

bills prime-sponsored

16

became law

1

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 1059 Industrial insurance/duties pending no
2025-26 HB 1090 Contraceptive coverage pending yes
2025-26 HB 1212 Child care center siting pending yes
2025-26 EHB 1217 Residential tenants became law yes
2025-26 HB 1350 Child care reimburse. rates pending no
2025-26 SB 5463 Industrial insurance/duties became law yes
2025-26 SB 5488 DCYF/financial stability pending yes
2025-26 SB 5496 Home buying by entities pending yes
2025-26 SB 5497 Housing & shelters pending yes
2025-26 SB 5498 Contraceptive coverage became law yes
2025-26 SB 5500 Child care reimburse. rates pending yes
2025-26 ESSB 5509 Child care center siting became law yes
2025-26 SB 5539 Paid family & medical leave pending yes
2025-26 ESB 5595 Shared streets became law yes
2025-26 SB 5600 TNCs/large-scale events pending yes
2025-26 SB 5647 Affordable housing/REET pending yes
2025-26 E2SSB 5651 Garnishment exemptions became law yes
2025-26 SB 5709 Public health clinics/tax pending no
2025-26 SB 5741 Housing court commissioners pending yes
2025-26 SB 5755 Residential dev./commercial pending yes
2025-26 SSB 5911 DCYF/financial stability became law yes
2025-26 SB 5993 Medical debt interest pending yes
2025-26 E2SSB 6026 Residential dev./zones became law yes
2025-26 E2SSB 6027 Affordable housing funding became law yes
2025-26 SB 6028 Homeownership dev. loans pending yes
2025-26 SB 6067 Workers' compensation pending yes
2025-26 SB 6068 Construction worker wages pending yes
2025-26 SB 6069 Supportive & emerg. housing pending yes
2025-26 SB 6173 Apple health employer assess pending yes
2025-26 SR 8697 Habitat for humanity pending no
2023-24 SHB 1200 Employee information/unions became law yes
2023-24 ESHB 1260 Work-limiting disability became law yes
2023-24 HB 1405 Public benefit payments/DCYF died yes
2023-24 HB 1428 Pedestrians/roadways died yes
2023-24 HB 1449 Project permits/reports died yes
2023-24 HB 1544 Shoreline program review became law yes
2023-24 E2SHB 1694 Home care workforce shortage became law yes
2023-24 HB 1695 Surplus property/housing became law yes
2023-24 HB 1890 Housing authorities became law yes
2023-24 SHB 1945 Food assistance access became law yes
2023-24 HB 1969 Individual providers/family died yes
2023-24 HB 2094 Gift certificates died yes
2023-24 HB 2095 Gift certificates/unclaimed died yes
2023-24 HB 2114 Residential tenants died yes
2023-24 HB 2168 Industrial insurance/duties died no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 45 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

  • House Committee on Capital Budget
  • House Committee on Housing
  • Senate Committee on Housing
  • Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce
  • House Committee on Local Government
  • Senate 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 · 6 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.

$31,768

raised, 2026 cycle

$6,610

spent

$635

average contribution

Total divided by 50 reported contributors.

$86,057

raised across 2 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 $31,768 $6,610 50
2025 $54,289 $24,659 86

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
Justice for All PAC Seattle $2,400
Kennedy Fund Seattle $2,400
Puget Sound Energy Bellevue $2,400
SEIU 775 Quality Care Committee Seattle $2,400
WA Association of Realtors PAC Olympia $1,500
Building a Stronger Washington Kent $1,200
Iron Workers District Council of the PNW Political Action Portland $1,200
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Auburn $1,200
SEIU Healthcare 1199NW United for Quality Care Kent $1,200
Uber Technologies Inc San Rafael $1,200
WA Beer and Wine Distributors Association Olympia $1,200
WA Health Care Association (WHCA) PAC Olympia $1,200
WA Society of CPAs PAC (CPA PAC) Bellevue $1,200
CHILDRENS CAMPAIGN FUND Seattle $1,000
Teamsters Local Union No 117 Tukwila $1,000

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Emily Alvarado to PDC filer ALVAE2-739 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (34) 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 ALVAE2-739

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 34 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 34th Legislative District

    WA Legislature member roster

  • SERVED — 2025-26

    Senate, Legislative District 34

    WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26

  • SERVED — 2023-24

    House, Legislative District 34

    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 Emily Alvarado,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-10. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/emily-alvarado/

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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.