Elected official · Washington State

State Representative Peter Abbarno

Peter Abbarno is a Republican state representative representing Washington's 20th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 49 bills, of which 14 died without a public hearing.

  • Republican
  • House
  • Legislative District 20
  • 2 sessions on record
email
Peter.Abbarno@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7896

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.

3,505

recorded votes

2,563

yea

941

nay

1

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

420

of 3,505 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 EHB 1941 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (13-23 yea-nay)
2026-03-11 E2SHB 1903 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (12-26 yea-nay)
2026-03-11 ESHB 2225 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (16-20 yea-nay)
2026-03-11 E2SHB 2416 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (17-20 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 2SHB 1128 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (11-27 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 SSB 5520 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (18-19 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 E2SSB 5847 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (10-27 yea-nay)
2026-03-04 SSB 5346 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (7-32 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 SSB 5825 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (30-8 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 SB 6188 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (5-33 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 ESSB 6200 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (10-27 yea-nay)
2026-02-28 EHB 2681 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (1-35 yea-nay)
2026-02-28 ESHB 2711 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (27-9 yea-nay)
2026-02-17 HB 2610 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (30-9 yea-nay)
2026-02-16 2SHB 1923 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (26-11 yea-nay)
2026-02-16 2SHB 2384 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (22-14 yea-nay)
2026-02-16 SHB 2475 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (4-33 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 2ESHB 1210 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (25-11 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 EHB 1941 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (12-24 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 EHB 2588 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (18-17 yea-nay)
2026-02-12 HB 1983 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (12-26 yea-nay)
2026-02-10 HB 1002 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (14-24 yea-nay)
2026-01-22 HB 1069 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (18-19 yea-nay)
2025-04-27 E2SHB 1096 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (35-4 yea-nay)
2025-04-23 ESSB 5752 Final Passage as Amended by the House on Reconsideration Nay Yea (29-9 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 420. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 3,505 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.

49

bills prime-sponsored

8

became law

14

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 1001 Fire protection projects pending yes
2025-26 HB 1002 PTSD/coroners & examiners pending yes
2025-26 HB 1003 Service of notice/tenants became law yes
2025-26 HB 1016 Veterans/employer incentives pending yes
2025-26 HB 1025 LTSS trust exemptions pending no
2025-26 HB 1026 LTSS trust spousal benefits pending no
2025-26 HB 1039 Gov. services/tribal lands became law yes
2025-26 HB 1055 Transparency ombuds study pending yes
2025-26 HB 1064 System improvement team became law yes
2025-26 HB 1656 Wildfire costs/securitizing pending yes
2025-26 HB 1719 Liquor licensee events pending yes
2025-26 HB 1853 Green community schoolyards pending no
2025-26 2SHB 1990 Utility disaster costs became law yes
2025-26 HB 2336 Independent medical exams pending no
2025-26 HB 2343 Game farm/water quality pending yes
2025-26 HB 2430 Crime victim penalty assess. pending yes
2025-26 HB 2574 Deceased candidates pending yes
2025-26 HB 2690 Electricity/low-income pending no
2025-26 HR 4608 Public works board pending no
2025-26 HR 4631 Special Olympics Washington pending no
2023-24 HB 1004 Bridge jumping signs became law yes
2023-24 HB 1005 Military/employer tax incen. died yes
2023-24 HB 1011 Long-term care/repeal died no
2023-24 HB 1014 Fire protection projects died yes
2023-24 HB 1259 Secretary of state exec team became law yes
2023-24 ESHB 1361 State employment became law yes
2023-24 HB 1409 Building code classif. died no
2023-24 HB 1729 Hydrogen fuel products died yes
2023-24 HB 1856 Transparency ombuds study died no
2023-24 HB 1973 Special education safety net died no
2023-24 SHB 1974 Disposing of human remains became law yes
2023-24 HB 1977 State rock died no
2023-24 HB 1986 Firefighter safety funding died yes
2023-24 HB 2031 PTSD/coroners & examiners died yes
2023-24 HB 2389 Service of notice/tenants died yes
2021-22 HB 1263 Rural infrastructure died yes
2021-22 HB 1540 Wastewater discharges died no
2021-22 HB 1594 Long-term care/repeal died no
2021-22 HB 1595 Bridge jumping signs died yes
2021-22 HB 1596 Long-term care/outside WA died no
2021-22 HB 1597 Long-term care/hardship died no
2021-22 HB 1598 Long-term care/death died no
2021-22 HB 1599 Long-term care/new graduates died no
2021-22 HB 1600 988 hotline signs died no
2021-22 HB 1677 Military/employer tax incen. died yes
2021-22 HB 1929 Fire protection projects died yes
2021-22 HB 2093 County timber tax distrib. died yes
2021-22 HR 4618 Justin Schaffer died no
2021-22 HR 4669 Rep. Dolan died no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 49 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 Environment & Energy
  • 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.

$107K

raised, 2026 cycle

$80,740

spent

$989

average contribution

Total divided by 108 reported contributors.

$522K

raised across 4 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 $106,778 $80,740 108
2024 $183,183 $165,103 171
2022 $143,940 $97,425 253
2020 $88,130 $88,159 197

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY FORT WORTH $2,400
DYNAMIC COLLECTORS INC CHEHALIS $2,400
Nisqually Indian Tribe Olympia $2,400
PUGET SOUND ENERGY BELLEVUE $2,400
SABEY CORPORATION TUKWILA $2,400
SOUTHPORT FINANCIAL SERVICES TACOMA $2,400
Smith Bradford Bellevue $2,400
THE BOEING COMPANY PAC ARLINGTON $2,400
USAA SAN ANTONIO $2,400
WA ASSOC OF REALTORS PAC OLYMPIA $2,400
WA Affordable Housing Council Tumwater $2,400
WA BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION PAC OLYMPIA $2,400
WA HOSPITALITY ASSOC PAC OLYMPIA $2,400
WASHBANKPAC STATE FUND SEATTLE $2,400
KOCH PAC Wichita $2,200

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Peter Abbarno to PDC filer ABBAP 531 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (20) 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 ABBAP 531

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 20 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 20th Legislative District

    WA Legislature member roster

  • SERVED — 2025-26

    House, Legislative District 20

    WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26

  • SERVED — 2023-24

    House, Legislative District 20

    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 Peter Abbarno,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/peter-abbarno/

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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.