Elected official · Washington State

State Representative Sam Low

Sam Low is a Republican state representative representing Washington's 39th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 48 bills, of which 5 died without a public hearing.

  • Republican
  • House
  • Legislative District 39
  • 2 sessions on record
email
Sam.Low@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7967

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.

2,526

recorded votes

1,966

yea

560

nay

Votes against their own party’s majority

171

of 2,526 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 E3SHB 1960 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (32-6 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)
2026-03-11 EHB 2445 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (9-29 yea-nay)
2026-03-11 SSB 6355 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (9-27 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 2SHB 1128 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (11-27 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 ESHB 1155 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (5-33 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 ESHB 2219 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (10-28 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 SHB 2496 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (14-24 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 ESSB 6346 2613 Reeves Pg 5 Ln 33 Yea Nay (15-22 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 E2SSB 5847 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (10-27 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 SB 6137 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (28-10 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 E2SSB 6026 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (15-23 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 E2SSB 6027 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (3-34 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 SJM 8002 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (6-32 yea-nay)
2026-03-04 SSB 5346 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (7-32 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)
2026-03-04 SB 5988 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (5-33 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 SSB 6014 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (12-25 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 ESSB 6200 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (10-27 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 SSB 6237 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (10-28 yea-nay)
2026-02-23 E3SHB 1960 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (28-7 yea-nay)
2026-02-17 ESHB 2225 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (13-26 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 171. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 2,526 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.

48

bills prime-sponsored

12

became law

5

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 1007 Small claims actions notice became law yes
2025-26 HB 1008 County local roads pending no
2025-26 HB 1009 Pharmacy commission members became law yes
2025-26 HB 1010 Rural area ADUs pending no
2025-26 HB 1030 Counted ballot audits pending yes
2025-26 HB 1053 Juvenile access to attorney pending no
2025-26 SHB 1061 Residential parking became law yes
2025-26 HB 1086 Motor vehicle chop shops pending no
2025-26 HB 1097 Gov. services beyond UGA pending yes
2025-26 HB 1098 County local roads pending yes
2025-26 HB 1099 Tenant assistance program pending yes
2025-26 HB 1139 Unlawful firearm possession pending yes
2025-26 HB 1206 Multifamily tax exemption pending yes
2025-26 HB 1238 Rare diseases adv. council pending yes
2025-26 SHB 1261 Open space incidental use became law yes
2025-26 HB 1283 Certificates of title pending yes
2025-26 HB 1331 Controlled substance death pending no
2025-26 EHB 1345 Detached ADU limits became law yes
2025-26 HB 1410 Inactive cannabis producers pending yes
2025-26 HB 1419 Interpreter background check pending yes
2025-26 HB 1618 College in HS/private school pending no
2025-26 HB 1822 Driver course/work zones pending yes
2025-26 HB 1823 Transp. improvement board pending yes
2025-26 HB 2129 Agritourism pending yes
2025-26 HB 2140 Current use land/sale to gov pending yes
2025-26 ESHB 2192 Roadway fatalities became law yes
2025-26 HB 2246 Student firearm violations pending yes
2025-26 HB 2344 Safe cookware pending no
2025-26 HB 2379 Emergency tolling suspension pending yes
2025-26 HB 2380 Financial services apps pending no
2025-26 HB 2423 Retirement distributions pending no
2025-26 HB 2441 Survivor insurance/LEOFF became law yes
2025-26 HB 2477 Real estate appraisals pending yes
2023-24 HB 1031 Medal of valor award became law yes
2023-24 HB 1096 Amateur sports officials died no
2023-24 SHB 1271 Organ transport vehicles became law yes
2023-24 HB 1442 Synthetic media died yes
2023-24 HB 1443 Online voter registration died yes
2023-24 HB 1504 Elementary school recess died yes
2023-24 HB 1878 State employee seniority died no
2023-24 HB 1909 Pharmacy commission members died yes
2023-24 HB 1961 Animal cruelty/seriousness became law yes
2023-24 HB 1962 Voter address changes became law yes
2023-24 HB 1987 Public facilities tax use became law yes
2023-24 HB 2002 Public use of fentanyl, meth died no
2023-24 HB 2126 Rural area ADUs died yes
2023-24 HB 2328 Small fire districts/leave died no
2023-24 HR 4618 Turner syndrome died no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 48 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

  • House Committee on Health Care & Wellness
  • House Committee on Housing
  • House 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 2026-08-07

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.

$111K

raised, 2026 cycle

$55,326

spent

$961

average contribution

Total divided by 116 reported contributors.

$497K

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
2026 $111,494 $55,326 116
2024 $230,537 $239,976 256
2022 $154,898 $145,459 228

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
Iron Mountian Quarry Bothell $2,400
Malmberg Aimee Snohomish $2,400
Malmberg Wendell Snohomish $2,400
Propeller airports everett $2,400
Puget Sound Energy Bellevue $2,400
SEIU 775 Quality Care Committee Seattle $2,400
Smith Bradford Bellevue $2,400
Vangemert John woodinville $2,400
WA Beverage Association PAC Olympia $2,400
WASHINGTON HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION Olympia $2,400
Washington Affordable Housing Council Tumwater $2,400
Washington Multi Family Housing PAC Renton $2,400
harvey Kandace snohomish $2,400
husby homes llc snohomish $2,400
seven lakes development Stanwood $2,400

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Sam Low to PDC filer LOW SE 258 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (39) 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 LOW SE 258

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 39 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 39th Legislative District

    WA Legislature member roster

  • SERVED — 2025-26

    House, Legislative District 39

    WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26

  • SERVED — 2023-24

    House, Legislative District 39

    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 Sam Low,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/sam-low/

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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.