State Representative Mike Steele – Washington Independents

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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

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

4,999

yea

1,231

nay

82

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

942

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
2026-03-12	ESSB 6005	Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee	Yea	Nay (12-26 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	ESHB 1500	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (5-33 yea-nay)
2026-03-11	E2SHB 1903	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (12-26 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESHB 2219	Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Yea	Nay (10-28 yea-nay)
2026-03-09	ESSB 6346	2613 Reeves Pg 5 Ln 33	Yea	Nay (15-22 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	ESB 5068	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Yea	Nay (4-33 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	E2SSB 5847	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Yea	Nay (10-27 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	E2SSB 5981	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Yea	Nay (11-28 yea-nay)
2026-03-06	SB 6137	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (28-10 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	ESSB 5837	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (16-23 yea-nay)
2026-03-04	SB 5957	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (14-25 yea-nay)
2026-03-03	ESB 6106	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (19-18 yea-nay)
2026-03-03	ESSB 6200	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Yea	Nay (10-27 yea-nay)
2026-02-28	ESHB 2711	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (27-9 yea-nay)
2026-02-16	2SHB 2333	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (16-20 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	2SHB 1128	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (7-28 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	EHB 2588	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (18-17 yea-nay)
2026-02-12	SHB 2360	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (4-34 yea-nay)
2026-02-12	HB 2367	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (6-32 yea-nay)
2026-02-10	HB 1002	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (14-24 yea-nay)
2026-02-10	ESHB 2229	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (11-26 yea-nay)
2026-01-29	HB 1269	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (37-2 yea-nay)
2026-01-29	SHB 2123	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (12-27 yea-nay)
2026-01-22	HB 1069	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (18-19 yea-nay)
2026-01-15	SHB 1302	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Yea	Nay (18-21 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 942. 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.

51

bills prime-sponsored

14

became law

10

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 1151	Ninth grade success grants	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1156	Volunteer firefighters/DCP	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 1157	Vital records family access	became law	yes
2025-26	2SHB 1701	Liquor licensee premises	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 1842	Captive insurers/PUDs	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 2021	Public works board bonds	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2128	Alcohol service/recreational	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2171	Foster youth	pending	yes
2025-26	HR 4603	Viki Downey	pending	no
2025-26	HR 4629	Apple blossom festival	pending	no
2025-26	HR 4639	Chelan H.S. volleyball	pending	no
2023-24	SHB 1250	Low-income home rehab. prg.	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1256	Higher ed. matching grants	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1294	Plan 1 retiree COLAs	died	no
2023-24	HB 1342	Embodied carbon reductions	died	yes
2023-24	SHB 1501	Family counseling/homicide	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 1765	Special occasion liquor lic.	died	yes
2023-24	HB 1803	Specialty shop endorsement	died	yes
2023-24	SHB 1804	PEBB/subdivision retirees	became law	yes
2023-24	HB 2163	Liquor licensee advertising	died	yes
2023-24	ESHB 2306	Main street tax credits	became law	yes
2023-24	HR 4613	Chelan H.S. volleyball	died	no
2021-22	HB 1023	Predesign requirements	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1906	Nonprofit property tax ex.	died	no
2021-22	HB 1907	Gift equity packaging	became law	yes
2021-22	HB 1908	Surplus property for housing	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1948	Failing water systems	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1966	Local infra. investment prg	died	yes
2021-22	HB 1967	Nonprofits/property tax	died	yes
2021-22	HB 2055	Higher ed. capital grants	died	yes
2021-22	HB 2056	K-12 instructional materials	died	yes
2021-22	HB 2072	Manuf. homes as real prop.	died	no
2021-22	EHB 2073	State capitol committee	died	yes
2019-20	2SHB 1424	CTE course equivalencies	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 1672	Wine recorking	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 1673	Explosives/public record act	became law	yes
2019-20	HB 1936	Wineries/liquor sales	died	no
2019-20	HB 1937	Liquor lic. community events	died	no
2019-20	HB 1938	Local infra. investment prg	died	yes
2019-20	HB 1939	Homeless & at-risk veterans	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2133	Explosives	died	no
2019-20	HB 2805	Explosives	died	no
2019-20	HB 2842	Nonprofit liquor licenses	died	yes
2019-20	HB 2936	Predesign requirements	died	yes
2017-18	EHB 1309	Natural disaster/tax classif	died	yes
2017-18	HB 2046	Local infra. investment prg	died	yes
2017-18	HB 2047	Outdoor burning	died	no
2017-18	HB 2048	Disaster area financing	died	yes
2017-18	SHB 2822	Service animal misrepresent.	became law	yes
2017-18	HB 2823	Gift equity packaging	died	yes
2017-18	HR 4660	Gary Knowlton	died	no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 51 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

House Committee on Capital Budget
House Committee on Consumer Protection & Business
House Committee on Education

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.

$101K

raised, 2026 cycle

$20,938

spent

$862

average contribution

Total divided by 117 reported contributors.

$514K

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	$100,849	$20,938	117
2024	$188,525	$176,854	144
2022	$89,579	$81,678	96
2020	$53,975	$53,581	71
2018	$47,700	$48,828	101
2016	$33,847	$33,347	154

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
House Republican Organizing Committee	Olympia	$5,000
ABC PAC WA	SPOKANE	$2,400
AMAZON SERVICES LLC	SEATTLE	$2,400
Pauly Doug	Wenatchee	$2,400
Pauly Katie	Wenatchee	$2,400
Regence	Seattle	$2,400
Smith Bradford	Bellevue	$2,400
Snoqualmie Tribe	Snoqualmie	$2,400
THE BOEING CO PAC	ARLINGTON	$2,400
USAA	SAN ANTONIO	$2,400
WA Assoc of Nurse Anesthetists PAC	Gig Harbor	$2,400
NECA PAC – PUGET SOUND CHAPTER	SHORELINE	$2,200
Baldwin Randall	Wenatchee	$1,700
ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS WESTERN WA CHAPTER PAC	BELLEVUE	$1,200
ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF WA BUILD PAC	SEATTLE	$1,200

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Mike Steele to PDC filer STEEM 816 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) 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 STEEM 816

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 12	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 12th Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

House, Legislative District 12

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

House, Legislative District 12

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 Mike Steele,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/mike-steele/

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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.