Elected official · Washington State
State Representative My-Linh Thai
My-Linh Thai is a Democratic state representative representing Washington's 41st Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 114 bills, of which 25 died without a public hearing.
- Democratic
- House
- Legislative District 41
- 2 sessions on record
- my-linh.thai@leg.wa.gov
- phone
- (360) 786-7926
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.
4,951
recorded votes
4,523
yea
399
nay
29
absent or excused
Votes against their own party’s majority
39
of 4,951 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.
| Date | Bill | Motion | They voted | Their party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-17 | HB 1526 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (52-6 yea-nay) |
| 2026-02-17 | ESHB 2168 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (42-16 yea-nay) |
| 2025-04-09 | SJM 8008 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (57-2 yea-nay) |
| 2025-03-08 | HB 1327 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (53-5 yea-nay) |
| 2025-03-05 | SHB 1833 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (53-5 yea-nay) |
| 2025-03-03 | HB 1605 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (52-6 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) |
| 2024-02-12 | ESHB 1893 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (53-5 yea-nay) |
| 2024-02-12 | HB 2204 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (53-5 yea-nay) |
| 2024-02-10 | SHB 1989 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (57-1 yea-nay) |
| 2023-04-10 | ESB 5352 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (38-19 yea-nay) |
| 2023-04-10 | SSB 5448 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (44-14 yea-nay) |
| 2023-04-07 | 2SSB 5454 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (53-4 yea-nay) |
| 2023-03-16 | HB 1573 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (39-19 yea-nay) |
| 2023-03-04 | ESHB 1155 | 168 Walen Pg 14 Ln 24 | Nay | Yea (42-15 yea-nay) |
| 2023-03-02 | 2SHB 1491 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (56-1 yea-nay) |
| 2022-03-08 | SHB 1590 | Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Nay | Yea (62-36 yea-nay) |
| 2022-03-04 | ESB 5919 | Final Passage as Amended by the House | Nay | Yea (86-12 yea-nay) |
| 2022-02-12 | HB 1769 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (71-27 yea-nay) |
| 2022-02-12 | ESHB 2037 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (87-11 yea-nay) |
| 2021-04-13 | HB 1289 | Final Passage as Amended by the Senate | Nay | Yea (91-7 yea-nay) |
| 2021-03-08 | ESHB 1232 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (77-21 yea-nay) |
| 2021-03-08 | HB 1289 | 3rd Reading & Final Passage | Nay | Yea (91-6 yea-nay) |
| 2021-03-03 | E2SHB 1186 | 285 Graham Pg 3 Ln 14 | Nay | Yea (59-38 yea-nay) |
Showing the 25 most recent of 39. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 4,951 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.
114
bills prime-sponsored
29
became law
25
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 | 2SHB 1207 | Superior court clerk fees | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1214 | Working families' tax credit | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1224 | Working families' tax credit | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 1326 | Diabetes and obesity | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | 2SHB 1359 | Criminal insanity | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1386 | Firearms tax | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1444 | Whole genome sequencing | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1482 | Health coverage access | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 1520 | Pharmacist scope of practice | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 1535 | Dental insurance practices | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1614 | Capital gains tax | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | E3SHB 1634 | Behavioral health/schools | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1674 | Hepatitis B & C screening | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 1675 | Corp. practice of medicine | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 1677 | Postsecondary/med. abortion | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1684 | Water recreation facilities | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1694 | City & county REET revenues | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | ESHB 1718 | Health care prof. well-being | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1725 | Biosimilar medicines | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1741 | PANDAS, pediatric treatment | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 1754 | Medicare suppl./guaranteed | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 1770 | Vision benefits | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 2074 | Electors/influencing | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 2145 | 340B drug pricing program | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 2176 | Drug therapy agreements/PRA | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 2177 | Definition of fetal death | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | SHB 2178 | Court rules and procedures | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 2302 | Pharmacist prescriptive auth | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 2425 | Nursing delegation | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 2465 | Water recreation facilities | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 2522 | Preventive dental care | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HB 2597 | Immigration enforcement | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 2613 | Compounded medications | pending | yes |
| 2025-26 | HB 2632 | Noncitizen terminology | became law | yes |
| 2025-26 | HR 4604 | Lunar New Year | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HR 4633 | Osteoporosis | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HR 4642 | Refugee communities | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HR 4649 | Southeast Asian refugees | pending | no |
| 2025-26 | HR 4682 | Lunar New Year | pending | no |
| 2023-24 | HB 1021 | Social worker licensing | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1025 | Police/private actions | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SHB 1074 | Landlord damage claims | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1075 | Working families' tax credit | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SHB 1077 | Courthouse facility dogs | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1079 | Whole genome sequencing | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SHB 1275 | Athletic trainers | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1287 | Dental hygienists | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1434 | DOH facilities/enforcement | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HB 1440 | Juvenile court jurisdiction | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1473 | Wealth/property tax | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | 2SHB 1477 | Working families' tax credit | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1516 | Lunar new year | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | SHB 1562 | Violence | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | 2SHB 1745 | Diversity in clinical trials | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 1895 | Working families' tax credit | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | ESHB 2115 | Prescription labels/abortion | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 2116 | Pharmacist prescriptive auth | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 2122 | Physician wellness programs | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 2152 | Criminal insanity terms | died | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 2209 | Lunar new year | became law | yes |
| 2023-24 | HB 2225 | Licensing/criminal records | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HB 2238 | Ammunition tax | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HB 2278 | Capital gains tax | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HB 2314 | Health care/confinement | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HR 4604 | Lunar New Year | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HR 4656 | Heart health month | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HR 4660 | Lunar New Year | died | no |
| 2023-24 | HR 4694 | CAPAA | died | no |
| 2021-22 | HB 1009 | Student health plans | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1042 | Child custody/international | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1191 | Health coverage | died | no |
| 2021-22 | HB 1202 | Police misconduct/civil rem. | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1264 | Equity impact statement | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | ESHB 1297 | Working families tax exempt. | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1300 | Landlord damage claims | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | SHB 1445 | Definition of compounding | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1576 | Homeless individuals | died | no |
| 2021-22 | HB 1651 | Postpartum contraception | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1670 | JARRC chair & vice chair | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1713 | Rx drug cost sharing | died | no |
| 2021-22 | HB 1749 | Newborn screening | died | no |
| 2021-22 | EHB 1784 | License plate visibility | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | EHB 1851 | Abortion care | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1852 | Prescription drug labels | died | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 1888 | Working fam. credit/rates | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | EHB 2096 | Working families' tax exempt | became law | yes |
| 2021-22 | HB 2116 | Nonbiodegradable packaging | died | no |
| 2021-22 | HR 4606 | Lunar New Year | died | no |
| 2021-22 | HR 4641 | Lunar new year | died | no |
| 2021-22 | HR 4653 | PANDAS/PANS | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HB 1272 | School lunch durations | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1352 | Drug compounding | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1412 | Nonresident pharmacies | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1468 | Bilingual educators | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1484 | Medicare supplement plans | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HB 1554 | Dental hygienists | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 1624 | Holocaust education | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HB 2197 | License plate visibility | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2203 | Acupuncture and Eastern med. | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2251 | Biological product notice | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2252 | Student health plans | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2253 | Ads for non-candidates | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2481 | Trailer license plates | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2520 | Landlord damage claims | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2521 | Working families credit/ITIN | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | SHB 2567 | Courts/arrests | became law | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2653 | Kindergarten assessment bias | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2702 | Chiropractors/medicaid | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HB 2847 | PANDAS/PANS awareness day | died | yes |
| 2019-20 | HB 2893 | Homeless individuals | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HR 4608 | Lunar New Year | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HR 4631 | Chirag Vedullapalli | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HR 4640 | Diabetes screening | died | no |
| 2019-20 | HR 4643 | Lunar New Year | died | no |
Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 114 bills across every session held
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Committee seats
2025-26
- House Committee on Appropriations
- House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary
- House Committee on Health Care & Wellness
- House Committee on Rules
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 · 4 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.
$40,732
raised, 2026 cycle
$24,281
spent
$831
average contribution
Total divided by 49 reported contributors.
$509K
raised across 5 campaigns
Every cycle we hold for this filer, not a career total — earlier campaigns may predate our coverage.
By campaign
| Cycle | Raised | Spent | Contributors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $40,732 | $24,281 | 49 |
| 2024 | $129,547 | $129,547 | 126 |
| 2022 | $101,132 | $101,132 | 199 |
| 2020 | $94,545 | $70,979 | 245 |
| 2018 | $143,477 | $147,042 | 479 |
Largest reported contributors
| Contributor | City | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| HOSPITALS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE PAC | SEATTLE | $2,400 |
| WA OPTOMETRIC PAC | KITTITAS | $2,400 |
| AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC | SEATTLE | $1,200 |
| CROWN JENNIFER | SAMMAMISH | $1,200 |
| CVS PHARMACY, INC. | WOONSOCKET | $1,200 |
| DAVITA | FEDERAL WAY | $1,200 |
| DELTA DENTAL OF WA | SEATTLE | $1,200 |
| GENENTECH USA | SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO | $1,200 |
| JUSTICE FOR ALL PAC | SEATTLE | $1,200 |
| LOSCHEN MATT | REDMOND | $1,200 |
| PREMERA BLUE CROSS | SEATTLE | $1,200 |
| PROLIANCE SURGEONS PAC | SEATTLE | $1,200 |
| PUGET SOUND ENERGY | BELLEVUE | $1,200 |
| REGENCE BLUE SHIELD | SEATTLE | $1,200 |
| UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC. | ENGLEWOOD | $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.
| Date | Cycle | Employer | Donors | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-12 | 2018 | BOEING | 4 | $1,550 |
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 8.3% 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 My-Linh Thai to PDC filer THAIM 006 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) 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 THAIM 006
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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 Representative, District 41 | 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
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On the record
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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 Representative My-Linh Thai,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-11. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/my-linh-thai/
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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.