Elected official · Washington State

State Senator Lisa Wellman

Lisa Wellman is a Democratic state senator representing Washington's 41st Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 186 bills, of which 23 died without a public hearing.

Democratic
Senate
Legislative District 41
2 sessions on record

email: lisa.wellman@leg.wa.gov
phone: (360) 786-7641

Source Washington State Legislature web services: member roster, roll calls, sponsorship and committee records · as of 2026-08-07

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

Voting record

Recorded floor votes across every session we hold. Committee votes are not included — those are recorded per committee, not per member.

6,711

recorded votes

6,187

yea

390

nay

134

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

149

of 6,711 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
2026-03-05	2SHB 2105	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (27-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	2SHB 1128	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (28-1 yea-nay)
2026-02-17	SSB 5828	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (23-7 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	E2SSB 6026	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (24-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-11	SB 5995	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (25-5 yea-nay)
2026-02-11	SB 6148	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (26-4 yea-nay)
2025-04-27	SSB 5393	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (23-6 yea-nay)
2025-04-25	ESSB 5041	Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee	Nay	Yea (27-2 yea-nay)
2025-04-22	ESSB 5041	Do Not Concur in House Amendment(s)	Nay	Yea (25-4 yea-nay)
2025-04-10	HB 1636	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (23-7 yea-nay)
2025-04-10	EHB 1747	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (27-3 yea-nay)
2025-03-26	SSB 5583	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (25-5 yea-nay)
2025-03-26	ESB 5772	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (27-3 yea-nay)
2025-03-07	ESSB 5041	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (28-2 yea-nay)
2025-03-07	ESSB 5041	148 Braun Pg 2 Ln 13	Yea	Nay (5-25 yea-nay)
2025-03-05	ESSB 5023	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (29-1 yea-nay)
2025-02-28	SSB 5408	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (23-7 yea-nay)
2024-03-04	SI 2113	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (16-13 yea-nay)
2024-02-13	SB 5915	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (16-13 yea-nay)
2024-01-17	SSB 5056	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (18-10 yea-nay)
2023-04-22	2SSB 5412	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (21-8 yea-nay)
2023-04-19	HB 1018	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (18-11 yea-nay)
2023-04-17	ESB 5352	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (16-13 yea-nay)
2023-04-12	ESHB 1791	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (15-14 yea-nay)
2023-03-08	SSB 5448	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (18-10 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 149. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 6,711 votes across every session held

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.

186

bills prime-sponsored

became law

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	SB 5187	Student transportation	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5188	Broadband repair loans	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5189	Competency-based education	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 5190	School building energy perf.	pending	yes
2025-26	ESB 5235	Public school statutes	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5240	Anaphylaxis med. in schools	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5270	Educator support/nurses	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5271	School nurse requirement	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5282	Missing children adv. board	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5307	Special education funding	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5312	Net nanny operations	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5327	Learning standards	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5418	Charter school contracts	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5551	School library info and tech	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5593	School levies & local effort	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5596	Interstate teacher compact	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5738	Retired employees/work	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5759	Art purchase program	pending	no
2025-26	ESB 5769	Transition to kindergarten	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 5812	K-12 education funding	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5858	Pupil transp. safety net	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5859	Competency-based assessments	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5870	AI systems/suicide liability	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5875	School liability/WLAD	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5888	Women's commission members	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5918	School operating costs	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5920	School district PRA requests	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5922	Transportation vehicle fund	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 5926	Child care providers/PRA	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5952	High school PE waivers	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5984	AI companion chatbots	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6041	Personality rights	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6042	School maps	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6120	High-risk AI	pending	no
2025-26	SB 6125	School stabilization funding	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6209	Financial aid awards/private	pending	yes
2025-26	ESSB 6260	Public education funding	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 6261	School enroll. declaration	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6278	Teacher & principal programs	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 6280	Smoking cessation products	pending	no
2025-26	SB 6307	Correctional fac. liability	pending	no
2025-26	SR 8621	Women in cloud	pending	no
2023-24	SB 5019	School safety staff	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5020	Education at 6 years of age	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5031	Special ed safety net awards	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5050	Breast implant surgery	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5051	Dissolution/doc. language	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5053	Insurance sublimits	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5054	Prof. learning communities	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5064	Special ed. excess costs	died	no
2023-24	SB 5085	School principals/employment	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5100	Breast & chest wall surgery	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5102	School library info and tech	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5174	Student transportation	died	yes
2023-24	ESB 5175	School principal contracts	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5233	Petroleum storage tanks	died	no
2023-24	E2SSB 5243	High school and beyond plans	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5264	Paraeducator requirements	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5305	Office of career connect WA	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5311	Special education funding	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5322	Public building materials	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5600	Universal communications prg	died	yes
2023-24	SSB 5617	Career & tech. ed. courses	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5648	Board of education waivers	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5718	State broadband map	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5849	Computer science/graduation	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5873	Student transportation	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5923	Substance use prevention ed.	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5956	Enrichment levies limit	died	yes
2023-24	SB 6012	Teacher preparation programs	died	yes
2023-24	SB 6014	Special education cap	died	yes
2023-24	SB 6123	Classified school employees	died	yes
2023-24	SB 6236	Home-based instruction decl.	died	yes
2023-24	SB 6264	Competency-based education	died	yes
2023-24	SR 8670	People of Taiwan	died	no
2021-22	ESB 5017	School district procurement	became law	yes
2021-22	E2SSB 5128	Student transportation funds	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5161	Teaching tribal history, etc	died	yes
2021-22	SSB 5249	Mastery-based learning	became law	yes
2021-22	SSB 5252	School consultation/tribes	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5255	Dissolution/doc. language	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5299	Computer science/HS grad.	became law	yes
2021-22	2SSB 5383	Public telecomm. services	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5389	Computer science teaching	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5398	Small businesses/excise tax	died	no
2021-22	SSB 5403	System improvement team	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5441	Breast implant surgery	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5527	Insurance sublimits	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5537	Compulsory school attendance	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5562	ESD employee health care	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5563	Enrollment stabilization	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5580	Public works board/broadband	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5581	Pupil transp. allocations	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5595	Schools/support funding	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5657	Juvenile instit./comp sci.	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5659	Building material standards	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5715	Definition of broadband	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5760	Motion picture program	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5775	Broadband deployment	died	no
2021-22	SB 5902	High school grad. credits	died	yes
2021-22	SR 8604	Henrietta Lacks	died	no
2019-20	SB 5066	School district elections	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5068	State learning standards	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5070	Bilingual educators	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5086	School surplus technology	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5087	Language competency grants	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5088	Computer science/high school	became law	yes
2019-20	SSB 5089	Early learning access	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5090	Wage and salary information	died	yes
2019-20	E2SSB 5091	Special education funding	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5105	Education reporting	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5141	School resource officers	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5142	Corporate boards/women	died	no
2019-20	SB 5146	High school graduation reqs	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5307	Treasurer/public works board	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5312	Special ed. appropriations	died	yes
2019-20	ESSB 5313	School levies	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5314	Capital gains tax/prop. tax	died	no
2019-20	SB 5315	Student support staff	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5316	School enrichment levies	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5317	School safety & well-being	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5327	Career connected learning	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5375	Capital budget/public art	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5427	Dual credit programs	died	no
2019-20	SB 5448	CTE/alt. learning exp. prgs.	died	no
2019-20	SB 5465	Basic education funding	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5466	School district levies	died	yes
2019-20	E2SSB 5497	Immigrants in the workplace	became law	yes
2019-20	2SSB 5511	Broadband service	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5548	High school diploma pathways	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5606	Pub. school language access	died	no
2019-20	SB 5607	Dual language learning	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5683	Family supports	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5736	Special ed. funding alloc.	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5756	Delegation of inspection	died	no
2019-20	SB 5801	Teacher postretirement empl.	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5973	State tax structure	died	no
2019-20	SB 5984	Dissolution/doc. language	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6100	Background checks/education	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6101	Dyslexia early screening	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6102	School bus stop signals	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6103	Educational reporting	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6117	Special ed. appropriations	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6132	Learning assistance program	died	yes
2019-20	ESSB 6189	SEBB coverage eligibility	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6243	Recreational fishing rules	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6244	Insurance coverage sublimits	died	yes
2019-20	SSB 6256	Heating oil insurance	became law	yes
2019-20	SSB 6257	Underground storage tanks	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6449	Suicide prevention/ID cards	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6479	Optional benefits/schools	died	yes
2019-20	SSB 6521	Innovative learning pilot	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6522	Courts/arrests	died	no
2019-20	SB 6547	Infants and toddlers program	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6615	School staff funding	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6619	Drinking water chemicals	died	no
2019-20	SJR 8201	School district bonds	died	yes
2017-18	ESB 5023	Schools/excess levies	became law	no
2017-18	SB 5555	Wage and salary information	died	yes
2017-18	SB 5643	Lead-based paint fees	died	yes
2017-18	SB 5689	Immigrants in the workplace	died	yes
2017-18	SB 5696	Breakfast after the bell	died	yes
2017-18	SSB 5764	Higher education records	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 5767	Health care provider notices	died	no
2017-18	ESB 6003	Student meals and nutrition	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6063	Aerial crop protect./schools	died	no
2017-18	SB 6064	Capital budget/public art	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6065	Student interrogations	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6132	2nd grd reading assessments	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6134	Alternative learning courses	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 6135	Academic acceleration prg.	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6144	Student assessment reqs.	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6184	Civil service/part-time empl	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6185	Postretirement teaching exp.	died	no
2017-18	SB 6248	High school diplomas by CTC	died	yes
2017-18	E2SSB 6362	Basic education funding	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 6390	Reclaimed water integration	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6396	Perfluorinated chemicals	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6403	Child care training	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6404	Child care background checks	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 6426	Telecomm. authority/ports	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6427	OSPI & board of education	died	no
2017-18	SB 6583	Women's commission	died	no
2017-18	SB 6608	Education T.O.	died	no
2017-18	SR 8653	Ms. Zoe Sheill	died	no
2017-18	SR 8698	UW women's rowing	died	no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 186 bills across every session held

Committee seats

2025-26

Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education
Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology
Senate Committee on Ways & Means

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

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.

$147K

raised, 2024 cycle

$112K

spent

$958

average contribution

Total divided by 153 reported contributors.

$798K

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
2024	$146,540	$112,304	153
2020	$163,703	$161,403	382
2016	$487,390	$484,531	732

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
Alan Crain	Bainbridge Island	$2,400
Amazon.com Services LLC	Seattle	$2,400
Comcast Financial Agency Corporation	Philadelphia	$2,400
Credit Union Legislative Action Fund Northwest Credit Union Association	Seatac	$2,400
Entertainment Software Association	Washington	$2,400
Jackson Legacy Fund	Seattle	$2,400
Justice for All PAC	Seattle	$2,400
Kennedy Fund	Seattle	$2,400
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe	Auburn	$2,400
PSE Seiu 1948	Auburn	$2,400
Puget Sound Energy	Bellevue	$2,400
T-Mobile USA, Inc.	Bellevue	$2,400
WA Beverage Association PAC	Olympia	$2,400
WHCA-PAC	Tumwater	$2,400
WashbankPAC	Seattle	$2,400

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Lisa Wellman to PDC filer WELLL 040 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (41) 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 WELLL 040

What this page will not compute

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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.

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 Senator, District 41	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

Connected records

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On the record

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Washington’s 41st Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

Senate, Legislative District 41

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

Senate, Legislative District 41

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

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“State Senator Lisa Wellman,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-10. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/lisa-wellman/

Where this page comes from

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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.