Elected official · Washington State

State Representative Greg Cheney

Greg Cheney is a Republican state representative representing Washington's 18th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 18 bills, of which 7 died without a public hearing.

  • Republican
  • House
  • Legislative District 18
  • 1 session on record
email
Greg.Cheney@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7812

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.

1,325

recorded votes

1,095

yea

230

nay

Votes against their own party’s majority

88

of 1,325 recorded votes went against the majority of Republican 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
2024-03-06 ESSB 5796 Final Passage without House amendments Yea Nay (3-35 yea-nay)
2024-03-05 SHB 1012 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (12-25 yea-nay)
2024-03-05 E2SHB 2000 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (16-22 yea-nay)
2024-03-05 ESHB 2039 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (14-24 yea-nay)
2024-03-05 E2SHB 2099 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (12-26 yea-nay)
2024-03-05 SHB 2348 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (7-31 yea-nay)
2024-03-04 HB 1054 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (10-29 yea-nay)
2024-03-04 ESHB 2115 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (3-36 yea-nay)
2024-03-01 ESSB 5796 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (2-35 yea-nay)
2024-03-01 ESSB 5796 Final Passage As Amended by the House on Reconsideration Yea Nay (2-36 yea-nay)
2024-03-01 E2SSB 5955 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (25-13 yea-nay)
2024-03-01 ESSB 6069 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (10-28 yea-nay)
2024-02-29 E2SSB 5213 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (18-19 yea-nay)
2024-02-29 ESSB 5271 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (4-35 yea-nay)
2024-02-29 ESB 5592 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (15-24 yea-nay)
2024-02-29 SB 5904 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (4-35 yea-nay)
2024-02-29 SSB 6053 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (28-11 yea-nay)
2024-02-28 SB 6229 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (18-21 yea-nay)
2024-02-27 SB 5805 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (4-32 yea-nay)
2024-02-27 SB 5913 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (34-2 yea-nay)
2024-02-27 ESSB 5985 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (5-33 yea-nay)
2024-02-22 ESSB 5974 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (9-27 yea-nay)
2024-02-13 2SHB 2124 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (17-22 yea-nay)
2024-02-13 HB 2440 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (7-32 yea-nay)
2024-02-12 HB 1052 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (13-26 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 88. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 1,325 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.

18

bills prime-sponsored

5

became law

7

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
2023-24 HB 1358 Prof. licensing review died yes
2023-24 HB 1359 Prof. licenses/new residents died yes
2023-24 HB 1558 Self-insured pensions/fund died yes
2023-24 HB 1770 Unlawful firearm possession died no
2023-24 EHB 1797 Real estate appraisers became law yes
2023-24 HB 1802 Minors in possession died no
2023-24 HB 1816 Ballot forwarding died no
2023-24 HB 1840 Catalytic converter theft died no
2023-24 HB 2032 Yard sign disclosures/size became law yes
2023-24 HB 2033 Rent relief incentive prg. died no
2023-24 HB 2034 Court reorganization notices became law yes
2023-24 HB 2205 Signature gathering/protests died yes
2023-24 HB 2206 Voter registration database died yes
2023-24 HB 2213 Defects and omissions became law yes
2023-24 SHB 2216 State employee degree reqs. became law yes
2023-24 HB 2268 I-5 Columbia river tolls died no
2023-24 HB 2269 Clay targets tax exemption died no
2023-24 HB 2371 Political advert. removal died yes

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 18 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.

$42,230

raised, 2024 cycle

$45,969

spent

$621

average contribution

Total divided by 68 reported contributors.

$217K

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
2024 $42,230 $45,969 68
2022 $174,886 $170,366 169

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
Rotschy Inc Vancouver $2,400
TEMPLE ERIC Medina $2,400
Amazon.com Services LLC Seattle $1,200
Anheuser Busch Companies Saint Louis $1,200
Chevron Policy Government & Public Affairs San Ramon $1,200
Comcast Financial Agency Corporation Philadelphia $1,200
Cowlitz Indian Tribe Longview $1,200
Delta Dental of Washington Seattle $1,200
IUPAT Political Action Together Legislative Education Committee Hanover $1,200
Koch Industries, Inc. PAC Wichita $1,200
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Auburn $1,200
Puget Sound Chapter – NECA PAC Shoreline $1,200
Puget Sound Energy Bellevue $1,200
WASHINGTON REFUSE & RECYCLING ASSOCIATION PAC Lacey $1,200
Washington Beer & Wine Distributors Association Olympia $1,200

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Greg Cheney to PDC filer CHENG–233 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (18) 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 CHENG–233

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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 18 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

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 Greg Cheney,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/greg-cheney/

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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.