Elected official · Washington State
State Senator Keith Goehner
Keith Goehner is a Republican state senator representing Washington's 12th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 53 bills, of which 11 died without a public hearing.
- Republican
- Senate
- Legislative District 12
- 2 sessions on record
- keith.goehner@leg.wa.gov
- phone
- (360) 786-7622
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.
5,006
recorded votes
3,893
yea
1,113
nay
Votes against their own party’s majority
788
of 5,006 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.
| Date | Bill | Motion | They voted | Their party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-10 | E2SHB 2325 | Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Nay | Yea (14-5 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-10 | E2SSB 6026 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Yea | Nay (7-12 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-10 | ESSB 6162 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (11-8 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-10 | ESSB 6200 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Yea | Nay (7-12 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-10 | SGA 9266 | The Appointment be Confirmed | Nay | Yea (14-5 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-06 | 2ESHB 1210 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Yea | Nay (8-10 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-06 | E2SHB 1903 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Yea | Nay (5-13 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-06 | E2SHB 2251 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Yea | Nay (4-14 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-05 | E3SHB 1960 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Nay | Yea (13-6 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-05 | SHB 2334 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Nay | Yea (16-2 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-05 | HB 2353 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (10-9 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-05 | HB 2510 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Nay | Yea (17-2 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-04 | HB 2340 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (17-2 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-03 | EHB 1345 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Yea | Nay (4-15 yea-nay) |
| 2026-03-03 | 2SHB 2384 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Yea | Nay (7-12 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-28 | EHB 1687 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Yea | Nay (2-17 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-26 | EHB 1501 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Yea | Nay (4-15 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-26 | ESHB 2242 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Yea | Nay (7-12 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-17 | ESSB 6200 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Yea | Nay (5-14 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-16 | SB 5832 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Yea | Nay (5-14 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-16 | ESSB 6162 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (11-8 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-16 | ESSB 6262 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Yea | Nay (5-14 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-11 | SSB 5346 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (13-6 yea-nay) |
| 2025-04-27 | ESSB 5161 | Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee | Yea | Nay (6-12 yea-nay) |
| 2025-04-27 | SSB 5393 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (10-7 yea-nay) |
Showing the 25 most recent of 788. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 5,006 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.
53
bills prime-sponsored
8
became law
11
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.
| Session | Bill | Subject | Outcome | Heard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | SB 5154 | County auditor duties | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5317 | EFSEC/services by local gov. | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5467 | Water-sewer district surplus | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5470 | Detached ADUs | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | ESB 5471 | Middle housing | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5524 | Donate life license plate | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SSB 5558 | Growth management plans | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5631 | Back country search & rescue | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | SB 5659 | Housing shortage/local share | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5660 | Water & sewage system access | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5661 | Landlord-tenant/preemption | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5699 | Intensive rural development | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5731 | Tenant assistance program | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 5929 | Deed of trust assignment/fee | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | SB 5930 | Irrigation dist. directors | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SSB 6076 | Utility procurement | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 6096 | Delayed utility conn. fees | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 6158 | Factory built structures | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SB 6167 | Down payment assistance | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | SR 8632 | Apple blossom festival | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | SR 8637 | Donate life month | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | SR 8639 | Arlene Wagner | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | SR 8686 | National donate life month | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | SR 8691 | Apple blossom festival | pending | no |
| 2023-24 | HB 1285 | Family farm permit transfers | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1403 | Water & sewage system access | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1404 | State building code council | died | no |
| 2023-24 | EHB 1468 | Impact fee deferrals | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1523 | Agricultural overtime | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HB 1594 | Residential electrician cert | died | no |
| 2023-24 | EHB 1663 | Consolidated port districts | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1664 | Env. justice council/rural | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HB 2050 | Fuel pump price information | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HB 2257 | Back country search & rescue | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 2375 | Senior property tax ex./ADUs | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HR 4614 | Wenatchee H.S. football | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HR 4630 | Apple blossom festival court | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HR 4685 | Manson H.S. cross country | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HR 4690 | Manson H.S. volleyball | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HR 4695 | Chelan H.S. volleyball | died | no |
| 2021-22 | HB 1222 | Fuel tax rate posting | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1385 | Water rights transfers | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1391 | Public works/bidding | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1414 | Marijuana licensing/zoning | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1627 | Water & sewage system access | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 2101 | Family farm permit transfers | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HB 1294 | OFM/agency names & accounts | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1442 | Election candidate names | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1633 | Fuel tax rate posting | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1634 | Tax foreclosure/as-is sale | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2247 | Marijuana licensing/zoning | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2825 | Hydroelectric turbines/oil | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2866 | Transfer of water rights | died | yes |
Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 53 bills across every session held
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Committee seats
2025-26
- Senate Committee on Housing
- Senate 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 · 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.
$172K
raised, 2024 cycle
$131K
spent
$904
average contribution
Total divided by 190 reported contributors.
Largest reported contributors
| Contributor | City | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Senate Republican Campaign Committee | Olympia | $20,000 |
| AVISTA CORP | SPOKANE | $2,400 |
| BNSF RAILRAY CO. | SEATTLE | $2,400 |
| HOSPITALS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE PAC | SEATTLE | $2,400 |
| WA Charters Action PAC | Seattle | $2,400 |
| WASHINGTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COUNCIL | OLYMPIA | $2,400 |
| WASHINGTON BEER AND WINE ASSOCIATION | OLYMPIA | $2,400 |
| WASHINGTON BEVERAGE ASSOC. PAC | OLYMPIA | $2,400 |
| WASHINGTON FOOD INDUSTRY ASSOC. PAC | OLYMPIA | $2,400 |
| WASHINGTON FOREST PROTECTION ASSOC | OLYMPIA | $2,400 |
| WASHINGTON REFUSE AND RECYCLING ASSOC | Lacey | $2,400 |
| WASHINGTON STATE AUTO DEALERS PAC | RENTON | $2,400 |
| WASHINGTON STATE DENTAL PAC | SEATTLE | $2,400 |
| WASHINGTON STATE TREE FRUIT ASSOC. | YAKIMA | $2,400 |
| WashBankPAC State | Seattle | $2,400 |
Employers behind more than one donor
Across the whole cycle rather than a single day. Weaker than the table above, and included because a slow accumulation from one workplace is still worth being able to see.
| Employer | Donors | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Cascade Medical | 2 | $354 |
Only 12.2% 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 Keith Goehner to PDC filer GOEHK–991 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (12) 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 GOEHK–991
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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.
| Seat | Term | Next election | Filing opens |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senator, District 12 | 4 years | 2028 | May 2028 |
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
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HOLDS A SEAT IN
Washington’s 12th Legislative District
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SERVED — 2025-26
Senate, Legislative District 12
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SERVED — 2023-24
House, Legislative District 12
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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 Keith Goehner,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/keith-goehner/
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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.