Elected official · Washington State

State Senator Steve Conway

Steve Conway is a Democratic state senator representing Washington's 29th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 713 bills, of which 133 died without a public hearing.

  • Democratic
  • Senate
  • Legislative District 29
  • 2 sessions on record
email
steve.conway@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7656

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.

25,035

recorded votes

22,800

yea

1,963

nay

272

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

1,415

of 25,035 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.

Votes against the member’s own party majority
Date Bill Motion They voted Their party
2026-03-12 ESB 6347 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (20-10 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 E2SSB 6026 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (28-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 ESB 6246 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (29-1 yea-nay)
2026-03-09 ESSB 5156 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (25-3 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 E2SHB 2034 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (25-4 yea-nay)
2026-02-28 ESSB 6129 821 Wagoner Pg 6 Ln 29 Yea Nay (3-27 yea-nay)
2026-02-28 ESSB 6231 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (26-4 yea-nay)
2026-02-17 2ESSB 5360 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (27-3 yea-nay)
2026-02-16 ESB 6347 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (19-11 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 ESSB 5156 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (27-3 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 E2SSB 6026 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (24-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-12 ESB 6246 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (27-3 yea-nay)
2026-01-28 SSB 5067 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (24-6 yea-nay)
2025-04-27 SSB 5393 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (23-6 yea-nay)
2025-04-25 SSB 5785 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (28-1 yea-nay)
2025-04-23 E2SHB 1440 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (27-2 yea-nay)
2025-04-21 ESSB 5677 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (25-4 yea-nay)
2025-04-19 SSB 5393 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (21-8 yea-nay)
2025-04-17 ESSB 5184 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (28-2 yea-nay)
2025-04-15 2SHB 1409 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (25-4 yea-nay)
2025-04-10 E2SHB 1440 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (28-2 yea-nay)
2025-04-10 HB 1636 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (23-7 yea-nay)
2025-04-09 SHB 1576 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (28-2 yea-nay)
2025-03-11 E2SSB 5148 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (28-1 yea-nay)
2025-02-19 ESSB 5156 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (23-6 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 1415. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 25,035 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.

713

bills prime-sponsored

173

became law

133

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. A further 161 died in sessions whose hearing records the Legislature does not publish, and are not counted here either way.

Bills prime-sponsored by this member
Session Bill Subject Outcome Heard

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 0 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

  • Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce
  • Senate Committee on Rules
  • Senate Committee on Ways & Means

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.

$15,200

raised, 2026 cycle

$442

spent

$2,533

average contribution

Total divided by 6 reported contributors.

$441K

raised across 5 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 $15,200 $442 6
2022 $145,010 $150,210 134
2018 $120,355 $116,205 156
2014 $72,995 $57,329 197
2010 $86,973 $83,572 183

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
CITIZENS TO ELECT STEVE CONWAY (SURPLUS ACCOUNT) TACOMA $12,000
BOILERMAKERS 502 PUYALLUP $1,000
RETIRED FIREFIGHTERS WA PAC EDMONDS $1,000
MAC PAC OLYMPIA $600
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS SPOKANE $500

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Steve Conway to PDC filer CONWS 411 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (29) 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 CONWS 411

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 Senator, District 29 4 years 2030 May 2030

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 29th Legislative District

    WA Legislature member roster

  • SERVED — 2025-26

    Senate, Legislative District 29

    WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26

  • SERVED — 2023-24

    Senate, Legislative District 29

    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 Senator Steve Conway,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/steve-conway/

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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.