State Representative Jim Walsh – 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.

6,312

recorded votes

4,339

yea

1,954

nay

19

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

1,517

of 6,312 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
2026-03-11	HB 1796	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (36-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	2SHB 1906	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (35-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	SHB 2296	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (37-1 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	SHB 2334	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (23-15 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	EHB 2588	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (1-37 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	ESSB 6354	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (29-7 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	SHB 2360	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (22-16 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	2SHB 2384	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (21-17 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2539 Berg Pg 3 Ln 21	Nay	Yea (36-1 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2552 Mendoza Pg 5 Ln 33	Nay	Yea (35-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	SSB 5841	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (34-4 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	E2SSB 5981	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Yea	Nay (11-28 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	ESSB 6113	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (34-4 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	ESSB 6162	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (35-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-05	SSB 5911	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (35-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-05	ESSB 6002	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (28-9 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	SB 5944	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (29-10 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	ESSB 6110	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (35-3 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	SB 6151	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (38-1 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	SSB 6189	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (35-3 yea-nay)
2026-03-03	SSB 5185	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (34-4 yea-nay)
2026-03-03	ESB 5272	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (36-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-03	SSB 5825	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (30-8 yea-nay)
2026-03-03	SB 6046	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (32-4 yea-nay)
2026-03-03	SSB 6054	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (31-5 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 1517. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 6,312 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.

152

bills prime-sponsored

2

became law

97

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 1000	Controlled subst. violations	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1041	Replacement tires	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1051	IEP team meetings/recording	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1065	Family burial grounds	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1176	Health care/minors	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1336	Utility meter choice	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1405	Complete streets obligations	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1961	Motor vehicle revenues use	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1962	Spring blade knives	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2017	School director training	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2028	Farmland purchases	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2076	Government efficiency, dept.	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2108	Juvenile justice transfer	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2121	Nonprofits, schools/taxes	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2234	School utility costs	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2235	PRA firearm exemptions	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2263	Public counsel	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2383	Involuntary treatment act	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2591	Legislative process/bills	pending	no
2025-26	HJM 4007	Motor voter law	pending	no
2025-26	HR 4698	Iranian Americans	pending	no
2023-24	HB 1037	Family burial grounds	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1071	School resource officers	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1091	Tax increases/voter approval	died	no
2023-24	HB 1092	State property tax/valuation	died	no
2023-24	HB 1093	K-12 scholarship program	died	no
2023-24	HB 1154	Religious institutions	died	no
2023-24	HB 1214	Gender transition/minors	died	no
2023-24	HB 1397	Dependency	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1496	Naselle Youth Camp property	died	no
2023-24	HB 1610	Public health/consumers	died	no
2023-24	HB 1677	Campaign finance disclosure	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1697	Early achievers, voluntary	died	no
2023-24	HB 1719	I-405 express & HOV lanes	died	no
2023-24	HB 1788	Health care/minors	died	no
2023-24	HB 1820	Local sales tax uses	died	no
2023-24	HB 1827	Vaccination status	died	no
2023-24	HB 1871	Ferry empl./COVID-19 vaccine	died	no
2023-24	HB 1904	Hybrid electric ferries	died	no
2023-24	HB 2183	Lawsuit remittances/names	died	no
2023-24	HB 2398	Instruct. materials/parents	died	yes
2023-24	HB 2399	School library complaints	died	no
2023-24	HB 2432	Facility district taxing	died	no
2023-24	HB 2435	TikTok ban	died	no
2023-24	HB 2477	Controlled subst. violations	died	no
2023-24	HJR 4200	Owner-occupied property/tax	died	no
2021-22	HB 1027	Administrative cost of state	died	no
2021-22	HB 1029	Emergency orders and rules	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1101	Unused public buildings	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1102	Intrastate meat inspection	died	no
2021-22	HB 1281	Behavioral health continuity	died	no
2021-22	HB 1374	Patches pal license plates	died	no
2021-22	HB 1390	Athletic scholarship funding	died	no
2021-22	HB 1436	Regulations/health crises	died	no
2021-22	EHB 1482	Common interest/foreclosure	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1505	Ambulance services/training	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1570	Proof of vaccination	died	no
2021-22	HB 1581	Property tax/language	died	no
2021-22	HB 1582	Tax increases/voter approval	died	no
2021-22	HB 1588	Vehicular pursuit	died	no
2021-22	HB 1589	Physical force/peace officer	died	no
2021-22	HB 1633	K-12 education scholarships	died	no
2021-22	HB 1695	Legislature op. procedures	died	no
2021-22	HB 1696	Legislative facility access	died	no
2021-22	HB 1720	COVID-19 vaccine, declining	died	no
2021-22	HB 1807	Civic education	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1944	Child welfare/supervision	died	no
2021-22	HB 1946	Legislators/event attendance	died	no
2021-22	HB 1999	State expenditure limit	died	no
2021-22	HB 2030	Involuntary quarantine	died	no
2021-22	HB 2041	Health care for minors	died	no
2021-22	HB 2110	Fish & wildlife enforcement	died	no
2021-22	HB 2125	State property tax/valuation	died	no
2021-22	HB 2126	Property tax reduction	died	no
2021-22	HB 2138	Fuel licensees tax rate	died	no
2019-20	HB 1021	Governor's security funding	died	no
2019-20	HB 1022	Pistol sales database	died	no
2019-20	HB 1024	Firearm owners database	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1029	Environmental impact process	died	no
2019-20	HB 1030	False legislative testimony	died	no
2019-20	HB 1031	Bulkhead obligations	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1032	Initiative amendatory format	died	no
2019-20	HB 1035	School resource officers	died	no
2019-20	HB 1036	Fish hatchery production	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1037	Aquaculture chemicals	died	no
2019-20	HB 1038	Firearms/school employees	died	no
2019-20	HB 1050	Parenting plans	died	no
2019-20	HB 1051	GMA focus on large counties	died	no
2019-20	HB 1052	Agency rule-making authority	died	no
2019-20	HB 1097	Firearms/health information	died	no
2019-20	HB 1098	Unsafe storage of firearms	died	no
2019-20	HB 1174	Cities/lowest resp. bidder	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1262	Presidential primary	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1291	Election cost reimbursement	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1292	Voter registration deadlines	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1494	Redistricting deadlines	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1507	School safety/design	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1566	New employment tax credit	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1711	New counties	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1770	Occupational board reform	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1838	Distillery information	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1951	County road emergency loans	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2082	Riparian agroforestry	died	no
2019-20	HB 2095	Sustainable farms and fields	died	no
2019-20	HB 2115	Public records/legislature	died	no
2019-20	HB 2190	Legislative transparency	died	no
2019-20	HB 2194	Transp. budget adjustments	died	no
2019-20	HB 2195	Nursing home rate setting	died	no
2019-20	HB 2196	ERPO issuance & enforcement	died	no
2019-20	HB 2222	Property tax reduction	died	no
2019-20	HB 2223	Firearm prohibit. liability	died	no
2019-20	HB 2224	Ballot measure fiscal impact	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2225	Legislative budget office	died	no
2019-20	HB 2226	Immigration enforcement	died	no
2019-20	HB 2267	Ballot measure rejection	died	no
2019-20	HB 2268	Election violation penalties	died	no
2019-20	HB 2282	Unused public buildings	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2504	Southwest salmon restoration	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2506	Marbled murrelet committee	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2627	Mask, disguise/felony crime	died	no
2019-20	HB 2628	Administrative rules & proc.	died	no
2019-20	HB 2647	Election security	died	no
2019-20	HB 2671	Short subdivisions	died	no
2019-20	HB 2698	Presidential primary/parties	died	no
2019-20	HB 2718	Insurance comm. w/ minors	died	no
2019-20	HB 2772	Campaign finance admin.	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2784	Firearms/sales & use tax	died	no
2019-20	HB 2807	Chronic pain treatment	died	no
2019-20	HB 2808	Legal firearms/possession	died	no
2019-20	HB 2810	Regionalization adjustments	died	no
2019-20	HB 2813	Early achievers, voluntary	died	no
2019-20	HB 2822	Voter signature witnesses	died	no
2019-20	HB 2930	Student restraint, isolation	died	no
2019-20	HB 2938	Property tax reduction	died	no
2019-20	HB 2939	State property tax/valuation	died	no
2019-20	HB 2963	PUD election voting rights	died	no
2019-20	HJM 4001	Sea lions/hunting or bounty	died	no
2017-18	HB 1148	Timber purchase reporting	became law	yes
2017-18	HB 1393	Fed. forestlands/ed. funding	died	no
2017-18	HB 1497	Coal electricity conversion	died	yes
2017-18	HB 1933	Firearms transfers/nonprofit	died	no
2017-18	HB 2042	Governor emergency powers	died	no
2017-18	HB 2133	Rural food & forest products	died	yes
2017-18	HB 2223	Higher ed. freedom of speech	died	no
2017-18	HB 2228	Individual health insurance	died	no
2017-18	HB 2301	Marijuana account/legal srvs	died	yes
2017-18	HB 2329	Pistol license records	died	no
2017-18	HB 2359	Ballot box locations	died	no
2017-18	HB 2414	False legislative testimony	died	no
2017-18	HB 2676	Jail inmate medical payment	died	no
2017-18	HB 2859	Department of fisheries	died	no
2017-18	HB 2942	Mineral resource planning	died	yes

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 152 bills across every session held

04

Committee seats

2025-26

House Committee on Capital Budget
House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary
House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations

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

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.

$46,605

raised, 2026 cycle

$80,078

spent

$548

average contribution

Total divided by 85 reported contributors.

$893K

raised across 6 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	$46,605	$80,078	85
2024	$78,069	$73,872	101
2022	$133,315	$136,321	408
2020	$176,518	$185,537	421
2018	$260,715	$252,615	322
2016	$198,044	$199,073	250

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
DYNAMIC COLLECTORS INC	CHEHALIS	$2,400
SABEY CORPORATION	SEATTLE	$2,000
WASHINGTON HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	OLYMPIA	$1,800
DAVITA	FEDERAL WAY	$1,200
HEYWOOD BRIAN	Redmond	$1,200
HEYWOOD ROCHELLE	Redmond	$1,200
PUGET SOUND CHAPTER – NECA PAC	SHORELINE	$1,200
RAYONIER OPERATING COMPANY LLC	WILDLIGHT	$1,200
THE BOEING COMPANY PAC	ARLINGTON	$1,200
The Nichols Group Government Relations	Olympia	$1,200
WA BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION PAC	OLYMPIA	$1,200
WASHINGTON BEER & WINE DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION	OLYMPIA	$1,200
WEYERHAEUSER	Seattle	$1,200
Wiegardt Ken	Ocean Park	$1,000
DOW TERRI	MAPLE VALLEY	$750

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
2020-06-14	2020	MICROSOFT	3	$400

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 10.7% 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 Jim Walsh to PDC filer WALSJW 520 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (19) 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 WALSJW 520

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 19	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 19th Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

House, Legislative District 19

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

House, Legislative District 19

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 Jim Walsh,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/jim-walsh/

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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.