State Representative Joe Schmick – 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.

12,611

recorded votes

9,529

yea

3,061

nay

21

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

3,015

of 12,611 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
2026-03-12	EHB 1941	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (13-23 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	E2SHB 1903	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (12-26 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	E3SHB 1960	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (32-6 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	E2SHB 2416	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (17-20 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	2613 Reeves Pg 5 Ln 33	Yea	Nay (15-22 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	SB 5944	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (29-10 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	SB 5957	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (14-25 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	SB 5995	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (21-17 yea-nay)
2026-03-03	ESB 6106	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (19-18 yea-nay)
2026-02-28	ESHB 2711	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (27-9 yea-nay)
2026-02-23	E3SHB 1960	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (28-7 yea-nay)
2026-02-17	E2SHB 2416	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (11-28 yea-nay)
2026-02-16	ESHB 2196	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (25-13 yea-nay)
2026-02-16	SHB 2244	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (13-25 yea-nay)
2026-02-16	2SHB 2333	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (16-20 yea-nay)
2026-02-16	2SHB 2384	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (22-14 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	EHB 1941	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (12-24 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	ESHB 2319	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (14-22 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	EHB 2588	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (18-17 yea-nay)
2026-02-12	HB 2367	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (6-32 yea-nay)
2026-02-11	HB 2155	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (30-8 yea-nay)
2026-02-10	SHB 2152	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (32-6 yea-nay)
2026-01-29	SHB 2123	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (12-27 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 3015. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 12,611 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.

143

bills prime-sponsored

39

became law

52

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 1327	Horse racing	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 1526	Snack bar liquor licenses	became law	yes
2025-26	SHB 1720	Community care/Rx assistance	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 1868	Athletic trainers in schools	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1957	Health plan rate approval	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1999	Ag. land/foreign ownership	pending	no
2025-26	ESHB 2110	Specialty care transports	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 2154	Conservation district land	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2488	Rural hospital payments	pending	no
2023-24	HB 1100	Dispo. of remains/indigent	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1315	Legal newspapers	died	no
2023-24	HB 1339	Insurance premium tax rate	died	yes
2023-24	SHB 1577	Municipal officers/contracts	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1646	Variable insurance tax rate	died	no
2023-24	HB 1712	Finfish worker displacement	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1780	Climate comm. act/fuel use	died	no
2023-24	HB 2106	Library district annexation	died	yes
2023-24	HB 2128	Certificate of need program	died	yes
2023-24	HB 2132	Coroner training costs	died	yes
2023-24	HB 2288	Agriculture/water pollution	died	no
2023-24	HB 2307	Public records reviews	died	yes
2023-24	HB 2370	Traffic safety ed./rural	died	no
2023-24	HR 4658	Glenn Johnson	died	no
2023-24	HR 4669	Terry Cochran	died	no
2021-22	HB 1096	Nonmedicare plans	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1275	Nursing facilities/medicaid	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1742	Long-term care program	died	no
2021-22	HB 1743	Dispo. of remains/indigent	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1745	L&I penalty discretion	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1761	Opioid reversal by ED nurses	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1777	Self-directed care	died	no
2021-22	HB 1813	Pharmacy choice	died	yes
2021-22	ESHB 1821	Telemedicine/relationship	became law	yes
2021-22	SHB 1902	Workers' comp reopening	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1928	Equine industry support	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1959	Managed health rate review	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1215	Health care balance billing	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1349	Geriatric behavioral health	became law	yes
2019-20	2SHB 1394	Behavioral health facilities	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 1405	Generator use reimbursement	died	yes
2019-20	SHB 1415	Medical marijuana auth db	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 1535	Dev. disability serv. choice	died	no
2019-20	HB 1600	Mobile home parks/seniors	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1810	Rural health payment changes	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1869	Emerging therapies work grp	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1911	Pharmacy benefit managers	died	no
2019-20	HB 1992	Sports wagering	died	no
2019-20	HB 2447	Wheeled all-terrain vehicles	died	yes
2019-20	SHB 2448	Enhanced services facilities	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 2450	EMS personnel license fees	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2463	Dev. disability designation	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2585	L&I penalty discretion	died	yes
2019-20	EHB 2755	Air ambulance cost transp.	became law	yes
2017-18	HB 1545	Housing payments/health prgs	died	no
2017-18	HB 1546	Comm hospitals/mental health	died	yes
2017-18	ESHB 1547	Cert. of need/psychiat. beds	became law	yes
2017-18	ESHB 1548	Long-term care curricula	became law	yes
2017-18	HB 1576	Insurance cmmssnr oversight	died	no
2017-18	HB 1837	Wheeled all-terrain vehicles	died	no
2017-18	SHB 1838	All-terrain vehicle crossing	became law	yes
2017-18	HB 1899	Medicaid/managed dental care	died	no
2017-18	HB 1916	Fertilizer, etc./B&O tax	died	yes
2017-18	HB 1996	State hospital reimbursement	died	yes
2017-18	HB 2067	Mental health pt placement	died	no
2017-18	2EHB 2107	Mental health placements	died	yes
2017-18	HB 2518	Mobile home parks/seniors	died	yes
2017-18	HB 2565	Drug & gene therapy/medicaid	died	yes
2017-18	HB 2566	Medical marijuana auth db	died	no
2017-18	HB 2672	Small business tax relief	died	yes
2017-18	HB 2894	Cert of need/ambulatory facs	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1104	Interference w/ag production	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1402	Prepackaged emer meds in ER	died	no
2015-16	SHB 1625	Ambulances & aid, drugs for	became law	yes
2015-16	HB 1626	Health plan grace periods	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1627	Unlawful land entry/hunting	became law	yes
2015-16	HB 1638	Health care scribe tx credit	died	yes
2015-16	SHB 1727	Nursing assistants	became law	yes
2015-16	HB 1781	I-90 max. rural county speed	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1848	Direct petition annexations	died	yes
2015-16	HB 1870	Hospital ownership	died	yes
2015-16	EHB 1890	Paying issuers/second-party	became law	yes
2015-16	HB 2043	Guardianships maximum fee	died	no
2015-16	HB 2044	Emergency medical services	died	yes
2015-16	HB 2181	Highway maximum speed limit	became law	yes
2015-16	HB 2340	State health insurance pool	died	yes
2015-16	SHB 2678	Nursing home facilities	became law	yes
2015-16	HB 2768	Dental plan taxes & charges	became law	yes
2015-16	HB 2842	State-owned land/private dev	became law	yes
2015-16	HB 2861	Chiropractic service payment	died	no
2015-16	HJM 4001	Daylight savings time	died	yes
2013-14	HB 1006	Horse racing comm. accounts	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 1410	Insurance wellness programs	died	no
2013-14	HB 1442	Parimutuel locations	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 1469	Horse racing/ind. insurance	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 1543	Health care providers	died	no
2013-14	HB 1564	Med quality assurance comm	died	no
2013-14	HB 1595	Initiative and referendum	died	yes
2013-14	HB 1609	Board of pharmacy	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 1700	Health plans	died	no
2013-14	HB 1712	Federal affordable care act	died	no
2013-14	HB 1713	Medicaid waiver/benefit exch	died	no
2013-14	HB 1775	Insurance/due process	died	no
2013-14	HB 1776	Wellness programs	died	no
2013-14	ESHB 1846	Stand-alone dental coverage	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 1854	Annexations/public approval	died	yes
2013-14	HB 1980	Human remains, location of	died	no
2013-14	HB 2119	State waterfall/Palouse	became law	yes
2013-14	SHB 2125	Horse racing fines	became law	yes
2013-14	HB 2421	Corrections dept staff	died	yes
2013-14	HB 2478	Water pollution control	died	yes
2013-14	HB 2489	Pharmacies	died	no
2013-14	HB 2496	Defendants/mental disability	died	yes
2013-14	HB 2550	Health care delivery	died	no
2013-14	HB 2591	Local employment laws	died	no
2013-14	HR 4671	Freeman H.S. football team	died	no
2011-12	HB 1027	Public assistance forms	died	no
2011-12	EHB 1028	Correctional populations	became law	yes
2011-12	HB 1360	Health care liability reform	died	no
2011-12	HB 1361	Mandated healthcare benefits	died	no
2011-12	HB 1477	EWU edu specialist degrees	became law	yes
2011-12	HB 1733	Consumer reporting agencies	died	yes
2011-12	HB 1804	Federal health care reform	died	no
2011-12	HB 2546	Medicaid waiver	died	no
2011-12	HB 2621	Third-party reimbursement	died	no
2011-12	HB 2687	Health care purchase options	died	no
2011-12	HJM 4011	Columbia basin proj/phase II	died	no
2011-12	HJM 4016	Columbia basin proj/phase II	died	no
2011-12	HCR 4404	Health reform implementation	died	yes
2011-12	HR 4618	Eastern Wash. University	died	no
2009-10	SHB 1254	Grain commission	became law	yes
2009-10	HB 2184	Privately operated manlifts	died	no
2009-10	HB 2456	Local councilmembers & funds	died	yes
2009-10	HB 2940	Deleterious feral animals	died	yes
2009-10	HB 3087	Pub assist application forms	died	yes
2009-10	HB 3109	Golf cart zones/local govts	died	no
2009-10	HR 4684	Connell Centennial	died	no
2009-10	HR 4685	St. John/Endicott volleyball	died	no
2009-10	HR 4686	Colfax H.S. volleyball team	died	no
2009-10	HR 4687	Connell H.S. football team	died	no
2009-10	HR 4701	Colton H.S. girls basketball	died	no
2009-10	HR 4702	Colfax H.S. basketball team	died	no
2007-08	2SHB 3129	College credit	became law	yes
2007-08	HB 3200	County cemetery district	became law	yes

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 143 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources
House Committee on Appropriations
House Committee on Health Care & Wellness

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.

$103K

raised, 2026 cycle

$33,363

spent

$1,167

average contribution

Total divided by 88 reported contributors.

$1.3M

raised across 9 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	$102,701	$33,363	88
2024	$264,703	$263,720	223
2022	$211,333	$212,286	367
2020	$140,069	$143,779	236
2018	$128,669	$132,154	295
2016	$123,822	$124,833	271
2014	$119,442	$121,463	401
2012	$114,944	$126,002	377
2010	$82,764	$86,395	370

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
PEOPLE FOR JOE SCHMICK SURPLUS FUND	COLFAX	$26,000
AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC ARISTOTLE INTERNATIONAL, INC FBO	WASHINGTON	$2,400
PhRMA	WASHINGTON	$2,400
REGENCE BLUE SHIELD	SEATTLE	$2,400
USAA	SAN ANTONIO	$2,400
WASHINGTON HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION PAC	OLYMPIA	$2,400
SABEY CORPORATION	SEATTLE	$2,000
ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC	RICHMOND	$1,200
AMR HOLDCO INC	GREENWOOD VILLAGE	$1,200
AVISTA CORP	SPOKANE	$1,200
CHEVRON POLICY GOVT & PUBL AFFAIRS	SAN RAMON	$1,200
CIGNA	WASHINGTON	$1,200
CVS PHARMACY, INC.	WOONSOCKET	$1,200
DAVITA	FEDERAL WAY	$1,200
DELTA DENTAL OF WASHINGTON	SEATTLE	$1,200

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
2012-09-11	2012	PROLIANCE SURGEONS	5	$775

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 3.4% 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 Joe Schmick to PDC filer SCHMJ 111 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (9) 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 SCHMJ 111

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 9	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 9th Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

House, Legislative District 9

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

House, Legislative District 9

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 Joe Schmick,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/joe-schmick/

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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.