Elected official · Washington State

State Representative Julia Reed

Julia Reed is a Democratic state representative representing Washington's 36th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 42 bills, of which 1 died without a public hearing.

  • Democratic
  • House
  • Legislative District 36
  • 2 sessions on record
email
Julia.Reed@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7814

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.

2,526

recorded votes

2,246

yea

265

nay

15

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

29

of 2,526 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 SB 6244 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (41-18 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 SB 6137 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (42-16 yea-nay)
2026-02-16 SHB 2203 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (57-1 yea-nay)
2026-01-29 HB 1269 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (46-12 yea-nay)
2026-01-29 HJM 4004 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (41-16 yea-nay)
2025-04-23 ESSB 5357 Final Passage as Amended by the House on Reconsideration Nay Yea (52-7 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)
2025-03-10 2SHB 1990 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (41-16 yea-nay)
2025-03-03 SHB 1061 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (55-3 yea-nay)
2024-03-06 SHB 2424 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (55-3 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)
2024-02-29 SHB 2489 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (51-6 yea-nay)
2024-02-29 SB 5184 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (49-8 yea-nay)
2024-02-24 ESSB 5950 1099 Rude Pg 322 Ln 39 Yea Nay (8-50 yea-nay)
2024-02-15 HB 2454 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (30-26 yea-nay)
2024-02-12 SHB 2424 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (55-3 yea-nay)
2024-02-07 SHB 2045 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (54-2 yea-nay)
2023-04-23 2E2SSB 5536 Final Passage as recommended by the Conference Committee Nay Yea (43-15 yea-nay)
2023-04-10 ESB 5352 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (38-19 yea-nay)
2023-04-07 SB 5531 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (53-4 yea-nay)
2023-03-16 2ESHB 1371 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (54-4 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 29. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 2,526 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.

42

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 1306 International med. pathways pending no
2025-26 SHB 1308 Access to personnel records became law yes
2025-26 3SHB 1491 Transit-oriented housing dev became law yes
2025-26 HB 1499 Legal financial obligations pending yes
2025-26 ESHB 1500 CIC resale certificates became law yes
2025-26 EHB 1501 CIC unit owner inquiries became law yes
2025-26 2SHB 1515 Alcohol service in public became law yes
2025-26 HB 1518 Vehicle collision liability pending yes
2025-26 HB 1557 Guaranteed admissions prg. pending yes
2025-26 HB 1560 Hospital exec. excise tax pending no
2025-26 HB 1616 Transit conduct/ferries pending yes
2025-26 EHB 1687 Social housing authorities became law yes
2025-26 HB 1689 Emissions/vessels at berth pending yes
2025-26 HB 1772 Shared streets pending yes
2025-26 ESHB 1837 Intercity passenger rail became law yes
2025-26 HB 1839 Advanced computing surcharge pending yes
2025-26 HB 1860 Supply chain competitiveness pending yes
2025-26 HB 2042 Federal employee hiring pref pending no
2025-26 HB 2091 Bargaining/employee info. became law yes
2025-26 HB 2092 Passenger rail adv. comm. pending yes
2025-26 HB 2095 Public way vulnerable users pending yes
2025-26 HB 2096 Attorney general inv. ID pending yes
2025-26 HB 2098 Higher education funding pending yes
2025-26 HB 2102 Legal financial obligations pending yes
2025-26 HB 2148 Pay it forward program pending yes
2025-26 SHB 2354 Common interest communities became law yes
2025-26 SHB 2363 Music therapy exemptions became law yes
2025-26 HB 2722 Vehicle fees/maximum weight pending yes
2023-24 SHB 1247 Music therapists became law yes
2023-24 SHB 1289 Opportunity scholarship became law yes
2023-24 HB 1319 Collisions/driver reexam became law yes
2023-24 HB 1320 Personnel records died yes
2023-24 HB 1351 Minimum parking requirements died yes
2023-24 HB 1517 Transit-oriented development died yes
2023-24 HB 1575 Cultural access programs/tax became law yes
2023-24 HB 1611 Local government permitting died yes
2023-24 HB 1819 K-12 music instruction died no
2023-24 HB 1980 Ground EMT services died yes
2023-24 2SHB 2022 Construction crane safety became law yes
2023-24 SHB 2025 State work-study program became law yes
2023-24 HB 2077 Guaranteed admissions prg. died yes
2023-24 HB 2160 Housing development died yes

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 42 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

  • 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 · 3 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.

$45,201

raised, 2026 cycle

$18,353

spent

$646

average contribution

Total divided by 70 reported contributors.

$367K

raised across 3 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 $45,201 $18,353 70
2024 $105,634 $109,379 156
2022 $216,398 $210,082 720

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
BNSF Railway Company Seattle $2,400
Electrical Workers 46 PAC Kent $2,400
Puget Sound Pilots PAC Seattle $2,400
Northwest Marine Trade Assn PAC Seattle $2,200
Washington Association of Realtors PAC Olympia $1,500
DaVita Federal Way $1,200
Justice for All Seattle $1,200
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Auburn $1,200
Pacific Merchant Shipping Assoc Oakland $1,200
Royal Caribbean Group USA Inc Miami $1,200
SEIU 775 Quality Care Committee Seattle $1,200
SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Renton $1,200
Saltchuk Resources, Inc. Seattle $1,200
Sanford Matt Seattle $1,200
Tour Alaska LLC 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
2022-02-01 2022 City of Seattle 3 $450

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 11.6% 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 Julia Reed to PDC filer REEDJ–051 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (36) 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 REEDJ–051

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 36 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 36th Legislative District

    WA Legislature member roster

  • SERVED — 2025-26

    House, Legislative District 36

    WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26

  • SERVED — 2023-24

    House, Legislative District 36

    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 Julia Reed,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/julia-reed/

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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.