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State Senator Paul Harris

Paul Harris is a Republican state senator representing Washington's 17th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 96 bills, of which 28 died without a public hearing.

  • Republican
  • Senate
  • Legislative District 17
  • 2 sessions on record
email
paul.harris@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7632

Source Washington State Legislature web services: member roster, roll calls, sponsorship and committee records · as of 2026-09-16

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Says vs does

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 2026-09-16

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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.

10,177

recorded votes

8,193

yea

1,964

nay

20

absent or excused

Recorded floor votes, most recent first
Date Bill Subject Motion This member Roll call
2026-03-12 ESHB 1295 Reading and writing literacy 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate YEA 48–1
2026-03-12 ESHB 1408 Community authority funding Final Passage without Senate Amendments YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 E2SHB 2215 Fuels/climate commitment act 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 ESSB 6005 Transportation budget, supp. Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 SSB 6003 Capital budget, supplemental Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 ESSB 5998 Operating budget, supp. Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee NAY 28–21
2026-03-12 SSB 6225 Transportation funding bonds Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 ESB 6228 Prescription drugs/taxes Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 26–23
2026-03-12 ESSB 6260 Public education funding Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 26–23
2026-03-12 ESB 6347 Estate tax rates Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 39–10
2026-03-12 SSB 6355 Electric transmission system Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA against party majority 32–17
2026-03-12 ESSB 6354 Electric vehicles Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 47–2
2026-03-12 SGA 9070 ROBERT H. MALTE The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-12 SGA 9075 ROBERT DECOTEAU The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-12 SGA 9091 STEPHANIE J. BARDIN The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-12 SGA 9094 HUEY YU The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-12 SGA 9171 ELISA K. GRACEFFO The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-11 SHB 2089 Taxes on loan interest 3rd Reading & Final Passage NAY 27–21
2026-03-11 EHB 2487 Insurer taxes 3rd Reading & Final Passage NAY 27–22
2026-03-11 EHB 2681 Cannabis license fees 3rd Reading & Final Passage NAY 29–20
2026-03-11 SHB 2689 Working connect. child care 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate YEA against party majority 33–16
2026-03-11 ESHB 2711 Transportation resources 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate YEA against party majority 33–15
2026-03-11 ESSB 6346 Tax on millionaires Concur in House amendment(s) NAY 27–21
2026-03-11 ESSB 6346 Tax on millionaires Final Passage As Amended by the House NAY 27–21
2026-03-11 SGA 9050 ROBERT A. ZAPPONE The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 46–0
2026-03-11 SGA 9066 MEGAN MATTHEWS The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 45–2
2026-03-11 SGA 9172 DENISE E. GIDEON The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-11 SGA 9180 ADRIA BUCHANAN The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-11 SGA 9204 MICHELLE R. SMITH The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-11 SGA 9227 EDISON A. VALERIO The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-10 E2SHB 2325 Tourism assessment Final Passage as Amended by the Senate NAY against party majority 43–5
2026-03-10 E2SSB 5847 Workers' comp. medical care Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 30–19
2026-03-10 SSB 5982 Consumer-owned utilities Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 30–19
2026-03-10 ESSB 6002 Driver privacy Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY against party majority 39–10
2026-03-10 E2SSB 6026 Residential dev./zones Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 35–14
2026-03-10 E2SSB 6027 Affordable housing funding Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 30–19
2026-03-10 2SSB 6035 Voting services Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 29–19
2026-03-10 SSB 6034 Office of Indian affairs Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 49–0
2026-03-10 SSB 6054 Wildfire home hardening/CICs Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 47–0
2026-03-10 ESB 6058 Wage enforcement discretion Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 46–1

Showing the 40 most recent of 10,177 recorded votes. Each tally links to the roll call itself, which names every member.

The tally is what the chamber recorded, not a verdict. Final passage needs a majority of the members elected, an amendment a majority of those voting, and some motions two-thirds; which rule governed a given motion is not in the record we hold.

Votes against their own party’s majority

1,956

of 10,177 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 SSB 6355 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (3-16 yea-nay)
2026-03-11 SHB 2689 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (3-16 yea-nay)
2026-03-11 ESHB 2711 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (5-13 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 E2SHB 2325 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (14-5 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 ESSB 6002 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 ESSB 6200 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (7-12 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 HB 2675 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (7-12 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 SSB 5520 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (1-18 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 SGA 9268 The Appointment be Confirmed Nay Yea (15-4 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 E2SHB 2215 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (11-7 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 ESHB 2229 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (7-11 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 EHB 2588 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (1-17 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 HB 1796 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (2-17 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 HB 2353 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2026-03-04 ESHB 1500 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 EHB 1345 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (4-15 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 HB 1526 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (17-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 EHB 2294 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (5-14 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 2SHB 2384 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (7-12 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 ESHB 2476 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (16-3 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 HB 2543 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (4-15 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 HB 2632 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (1-18 yea-nay)
2026-02-28 EHB 1687 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (2-17 yea-nay)
2026-02-28 ESSB 6129 821 Wagoner Pg 6 Ln 29 Nay Yea (18-1 yea-nay)
2026-02-28 ESSB 6129 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (1-17 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 1956. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll-call archive · as of 2026-09-16 · rows 10,177 votes across every session held · key committee votes are not in the archive and are not counted here

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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.

96

bills prime-sponsored

25

became law

28

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 SSB 5316 Unclaimed property became law yes
2025-26 SSB 5370 Port commissioner terms became law yes
2025-26 SB 5428 Community inclusion services pending no
2025-26 SB 5455 Cancer research endowment became law yes
2025-26 SB 5594 Biosimilar medicines pending yes
2025-26 SB 5597 Water recreation facilities pending no
2025-26 ESSB 5628 Lead in cookware became law yes
2025-26 SB 5629 Prosthetic limb coverage pending yes
2025-26 SB 5641 Blood donation/school instr. became law yes
2025-26 SB 5646 Assaulting outreach workers pending no
2025-26 SB 5657 Plasma donation/physicians pending no
2025-26 SB 5668 Newborn screening additions pending no
2025-26 ESB 5689 Drivers' licenses/blood type became law yes
2025-26 SB 5915 Health technology assessment became law yes
2025-26 SB 5916 Nonopioid drugs for pain pending yes
2025-26 ESSB 5975 Safe cookware became law yes
2025-26 SB 5976 Commercial electronic mail pending yes
2025-26 SB 6152 Workers' comp./PTs & OTs pending yes
2025-26 SB 6155 Parking, person w/disability pending yes
2025-26 SB 6213 Fibrous silicate materials pending no
2025-26 SSB 6226 Audiologist autonomy became law yes
2025-26 SSB 6268 Special ed. complaint record became law yes
2025-26 SR 8610 Cardiovascular disease pending no
2025-26 SR 8645 Northwest Center pending no
2025-26 SR 8669 National blood donor month pending no
2023-24 ESHB 1073 Medical assistants became law yes
2023-24 HB 1112 Negligent driving became law yes
2023-24 HB 1113 Prof. educator reprimands died yes
2023-24 HB 1497 Vapor and tobacco/minors died yes
2023-24 HB 1654 Behavior support homes died no
2023-24 HB 1655 Provider contract comp. died yes
2023-24 HB 1825 Teacher comp./state schools died no
2023-24 HB 1843 School district elections died yes
2023-24 HB 1881 Audio-only telemedicine died no
2023-24 HB 1884 Cancer drugs coverage died no
2023-24 HB 2157 Vaccine definition died yes
2023-24 HB 2172 Vacant state agency property died yes
2023-24 HB 2208 Nursing rate calculation died no
2023-24 HB 2340 Military service/DOL fees died no
2023-24 ESHB 2482 Semiconductor tax incentives became law yes
2023-24 HJM 4002 Constitutional convention died no
2023-24 HJR 4207 School district bond voting died yes
2021-22 HB 1032 TRS & SERS early retirement died no
2021-22 HB 1063 Behav. health credentials became law yes
2021-22 HB 1338 School resources/COVID-19 died no
2021-22 HB 1676 Tobacco & vapor products/tax died yes
2021-22 HB 1684 Drinking water fluoridation died yes
2021-22 HB 1686 Biodegradable product labels died yes
2021-22 HB 1791 Prof. educator reprimands died yes
2021-22 HB 1972 Negligent driving penalties died yes
2019-20 EHB 1074 Tobacco & vapor products/age became law yes
2019-20 EHB 1638 Vaccine preventable diseases became law yes
2019-20 HB 1857 Plasma donation centers died no
2019-20 HB 2003 Remote technology/eye exams died no
2019-20 HB 2057 Ethics act/special privilege died yes
2019-20 HB 2210 Medicare part D supplement died no
2019-20 HB 2818 Blood donor day died no
2019-20 HB 2834 Identicard/homeless died yes
2019-20 HB 2853 Charter school commission became law yes
2017-18 HB 1054 Tobacco & vapor products/age died yes
2017-18 HB 1198 Podiatric/substance abuse became law yes
2017-18 HB 1389 Dental practice/corporations died yes
2017-18 HB 1573 Sunscreen/schools died no
2017-18 HB 1691 Teacher & principal eval prg died no
2017-18 HB 1870 Out-of-network health care died no
2017-18 HB 1886 OSPI & state board of ed. died yes
2017-18 HB 2165 Vapor products, etc/taxation died yes
2017-18 SHB 2824 OSPI & board of education became law yes
2015-16 HB 1080 Health professional program died yes
2015-16 HB 1167 Palliative care coverage died no
2015-16 SHB 1183 Radiology benefit managers became law yes
2015-16 HB 1190 Optometrists/hydrocodone use died yes
2015-16 HB 1307 Residen'l services & support became law yes
2015-16 HB 1384 Dental professionals died no
2015-16 HB 1712 Audit protocols for medicaid died yes
2015-16 HB 1835 Diabetes epidemic died no
2015-16 HB 2431 Schedule II controlled subs. died no
2015-16 HB 2781 Massage transfer programs became law yes
2015-16 HB 2910 E-cigarettes, vapor products died no
2015-16 HB 2969 Vapor product taxation died no
2015-16 HR 4619 Salvation Army Clark County died no
2013-14 HB 1182 Pharmacists/legend drug act became law yes
2013-14 HB 1565 Prescription monitoring prog became law yes
2013-14 HB 1573 Licensed chiropractors died yes
2013-14 HB 1623 Medical specialty techs died no
2013-14 HB 1824 Unlawful internet gambling died yes
2013-14 HB 1943 Clinical review criteria died no
2013-14 HB 2061 Health plans outside exchnge died yes
2013-14 HB 2139 Physician quality improvemnt died yes
2013-14 2SHB 2163 Dextromethorphan became law yes
2013-14 HB 2173 Hydrocodone use/optometrists died no
2013-14 HB 2378 Chem dependncy professionals died yes
2013-14 HB 2379 Dental professionals died no
2011-12 HB 1712 Null power died yes
2011-12 HB 1914 Provider hospital privileges died no
2011-12 HB 2512 Pharmacists/legend drug act died yes

Source WA Legislature bill status + committee agendas · as of 2026-09-16 · n 96 prime-sponsored bills across every session held · What died in committee

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Committee seats

2025-26

  • Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education
  • Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology
  • Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care
  • 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 2026-09-16

Source WA Legislature committee membership records · as of 2026-09-16 · seats 4

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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.

$529K

raised, 2024 cycle

$519K

spent

$2,221

average contribution

Total divided by 238 reported contributors.

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
Senate Republican Campaign Committee Olympia $124,091
House Republican Organizational Committee Olympia $80,000
Retail Action Council Olympia $4,800
WASHINGTON WHEAT PAC Ritzville $3,600
JOHNSON & JOHNSON Washington $3,400
Barnes Dan Vancouver $2,830
Associated General Contractors of Washington BUILD PAC Seattle $2,400
Association of Washington Business PAC Olympia $2,400
BNSF Railway Company Fort Worth $2,400
Build East PAC Spokane $2,400
Centene Management Company LLC St Louis $2,400
CHEVRON San Ramon $2,400
Credit Union Legislative Action Fund Seatac $2,400

Individual contributors, by stated employer

Private individuals are not named here unless their own public conduct already makes them a public figure; their giving appears aggregated by the employer they stated. The full itemised record is public at the PDC.

Individual contributors, grouped by stated employer
Employer stated by contributors Contributors Amount
No employer stated 2 $4,800

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.

Employers with more than one contributor this cycle
Employer Donors Total
Nierenberg Investment Management 2 $4,800

Only 6.3% 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 2026-09-16

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Paul Harris to PDC filer HARRP2 683 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (17) 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 2026-09-16

Spent independently, for and against · not their money

Money spent about this member by committees that are barred by law from coordinating with them. It is not their money, they cannot return it, and it is not in the total above. Spending for someone is not money from them, and the two sides are never subtracted from each other.

  1. Spent supporting

    stance filed as “for”

    $146,073

  2. Spent opposing

    stance filed as “against” · not subtracted from the row above

    $501,575
  • SOUTHWEST WA PRIORITIES Sponsored by Kennedy Fund against · $500,631 · 2024
  • Southwest Communities First for · $97,826 · 2024
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS FUND for · $37,000 · 2024
  • BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF CLARK COUNTY BUILDING INDUSTRY GROUP for · $11,017 · 2024
  • Our Votes Count against · $944 · 2024
  • NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND for · $230 · 2024

Sources WA PDC C-3 contribution reports · C-6 independent expenditure and electioneering communication reports · as of 2026-09-16 · filer HARRP2 683 · key surname + given name + chamber + district — refused where more than one person fits · n 21 independent-expenditure filings name this candidate id · note independent expenditures are joined on the PDC candidate id, not on a name; they are a separate ledger, never netted against each other and never added to the committee’s own total

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How the seat was won

Every certified general election this member won, from the Secretary of State canvass. The canvass names winners by printed name and the Legislature issues member ids, so each row is a stated join of the two records — never a guess.

Certified election wins for State Senator Paul Harris
Election Seat Contest Record
November 4, 2014 State House seat 2, Legislative District 17 contested WA Secretary of State certified general election results, 2014
November 8, 2016 State House seat 2, Legislative District 17 contested WA Secretary of State certified general election results, 2016
November 6, 2018 State House seat 2, Legislative District 17 contested WA Secretary of State certified general election results, 2018
November 3, 2020 State House seat 2, Legislative District 17 contested WA Secretary of State certified general election results, 2020
November 8, 2022 State House seat 2, Legislative District 17 contested WA Secretary of State certified general election results, 2022
November 5, 2024 State Senate seat, Legislative District 17 contested WA Secretary of State certified general election results, 2024

Sources Secretary of State certified results + PDC candidate filings · as of 2026-09-16 · key joined on surname + given name + chamber + district; refused where more than one member fits · note — = value absent from source export

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Member response

This page is built from public records, and the member it describes gets space to respond to it.

No response process exists yet. When one does, anything this member sends about this page will be published here verbatim — dated, unedited, and clearly theirs. Nothing has been solicited yet, so the absence of a response here says nothing about the member.

Last checked 2026-09-16

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Connected records

Everything below is a link some document draws for us. Nothing here is our inference. Grouped by how well the record supports it, always in this order, never sorted by interest.

On the record · 29

One document states the relation in its own words.

Showing 8 of 29. Every edge for this record, as JSON

Joined by us, on a stated key · 6

Two documents joined on a key, and the key is named on every row.

Nothing on file

Votes are in the graph but render as vote-history tables above, not as rows here. Testimony and committee referrals are not in the graph yet — no sign-in sheet or chamber journal has been read into an edge for this member, which is not the same as none existing.

Checked 2026-09-16

Source one query on the edge table, grouped by tier · as of 2026-09-16 · edges 29 filed, 6 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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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 Senator, District 17 4 years 2028 May 2028

1 form

declaration of candidacy

Filed with the Secretary of State, online or on paper. It states your name as it will appear on the ballot, the office, and that you are qualified.

1 week

the filing window, every May

Monday to Friday, closing at 4:00pm. There is no late filing: miss it and the seat is decided without you.

0

signatures, endorsements, prior offices

You must be a registered voter living in the district on the day you file. That is the entire qualification, and no party is asked about you.

C-1

only once money moves

A campaign committee and PDC reporting are required within two weeks of raising or spending anything. Raise nothing and you file nothing.

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.

This section appears on every office page on this site, contested or not, filled or vacant. Its presence is not a comment on whoever holds the seat, and we do not say whether a seat is winnable — that would be a prediction, and this page carries records.

Source Election cycle derived from past regular elections in PDC candidate filings; requirements from RCW 29A.24 — candidate filing · as of 2026-09-16

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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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Common questions

Which Legislative District does Paul Harris represent?
Paul Harris is a Republican state senator representing Washington’s 17th Legislative District.
How often does Paul Harris break with their party?
Across 10,177 recorded floor votes we hold, Paul Harris voted against the majority of their own party 1,956 times. That count is a description of the record, not a measure of independence — the record does not say why any single vote diverged.
How many bills has Paul Harris sponsored?
Paul Harris has prime-sponsored 96 bills, of which 25 became law. Co-sponsorship is not in the record we hold. 28 of them died without ever getting a public hearing.
How long has Paul Harris served in the Legislature?
Paul Harris appears in the member roster for 2 biennia, most recently 2025-26. This counts biennia on record, not continuous years.
How many state legislators represent each Washington district?
Three — one state senator and two state representatives, elected to Position 1 and Position 2. All three represent the same geography; the positions are not sub-areas.
When are Washington legislative elections held?
In even-numbered years. All 98 House seats are up every two years; Senate seats run on staggered four-year terms.

Answers are generated from the same fields as the sections above and emitted as FAQPage structured data, so a machine reader gets the identical text a person sees.

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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.