Elected official · Washington State

State Senator T’wina Nobles

T'wina Nobles is a Democratic state senator representing Washington's 28th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 100 bills, of which 13 died without a public hearing.

  • Democratic
  • Senate
  • Legislative District 28
  • 2 sessions on record
email
T'wina.Nobles@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7654

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.

3,822

recorded votes

3,621

yea

138

nay

63

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

35

of 3,822 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 ESSB 6260 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (26-4 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 2ESHB 1210 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (20-10 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 ESSB 6260 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (24-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-17 E2SSB 6239 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (17-13 yea-nay)
2026-02-11 SSB 5346 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (24-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-11 SB 6148 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (26-4 yea-nay)
2026-01-21 ESSB 5071 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (21-9 yea-nay)
2025-04-27 SSB 5393 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (23-6 yea-nay)
2025-04-16 ESHB 2015 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (25-5 yea-nay)
2025-02-05 ESSB 5071 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (23-7 yea-nay)
2024-03-04 SI 2113 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (16-13 yea-nay)
2024-02-13 SB 5915 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (16-13 yea-nay)
2024-02-09 E2SSB 6109 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (22-7 yea-nay)
2024-02-09 E2SSB 6194 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (22-7 yea-nay)
2024-02-02 SB 6271 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (24-5 yea-nay)
2024-02-01 ESB 5032 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (23-5 yea-nay)
2024-01-17 SSB 5056 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (18-10 yea-nay)
2023-04-19 HB 1018 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (18-11 yea-nay)
2023-04-18 SHB 1240 452 Wagoner Pg 13 Ln 34 Yea Nay (4-25 yea-nay)
2023-04-17 ESB 5352 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (16-13 yea-nay)
2023-04-12 ESHB 1791 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (15-14 yea-nay)
2023-04-10 ESHB 1019 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (13-16 yea-nay)
2023-03-08 ESB 5352 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (16-13 yea-nay)
2023-03-08 SSB 5448 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (18-10 yea-nay)
2023-03-01 ESSB 5326 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (19-10 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 35. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 3,822 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.

100

bills prime-sponsored

21

became law

13

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 SB 5017 Uniformed & overseas voting pending yes
2025-26 SB 5119 Academic employee bargaining pending yes
2025-26 SB 5120 Learning assistance program pending yes
2025-26 SB 5123 Discrimination in schools pending yes
2025-26 SB 5126 Student mental health net. pending yes
2025-26 SB 5164 Student navigational support pending yes
2025-26 SB 5169 Testimony of children pending yes
2025-26 SB 5177 Professional dev. resources pending yes
2025-26 SSB 5182 Incarcerated parents became law yes
2025-26 SB 5183 Tobacco & nicotine products pending yes
2025-26 ESSB 5192 School district materials became law yes
2025-26 E2SSB 5217 Pregnancy accommodations became law yes
2025-26 SB 5218 Vehicle and driver licensing pending yes
2025-26 SB 5226 Physician res./international pending yes
2025-26 SB 5275 Passport to careers program pending yes
2025-26 SB 5320 Smokey Bear license plates pending no
2025-26 SB 5321 Postsecondary/med. abortion pending yes
2025-26 SB 5338 Veterans affairs adv. comm. pending yes
2025-26 SB 5411 Pilates studios, etc./tax pending yes
2025-26 SB 5567 Natural resources careers pending yes
2025-26 SB 5574 History instruction pending yes
2025-26 SB 5692 Seattle Reign FC lic. plate pending yes
2025-26 SB 5779 African diaspora heritage pending no
2025-26 SB 5803 Tobacco & nicotine products pending no
2025-26 SB 5826 Postsecondary/med. abortion pending yes
2025-26 SB 5828 College scholarships/private pending yes
2025-26 SB 5829 Attorney general inv. ID pending no
2025-26 SB 5907 ECEAP access/military pending yes
2025-26 SB 5956 AI use/student discipline pending yes
2025-26 SB 5962 Spring blade knives pending yes
2025-26 SB 5963 Passport to careers program became law yes
2025-26 SB 5966 Medically tailored meals pending yes
2025-26 SSB 6014 Pregnancy accommodations became law yes
2025-26 SB 6038 Postgrad degree requirements pending no
2025-26 SB 6055 Firearms background checks pending no
2025-26 SB 6112 HVAC scope/electricians pending no
2025-26 SB 6118 Cardiac emerg. plans/schools pending yes
2025-26 SB 6212 Children benefit pilot prg. pending yes
2025-26 SB 6265 Vehicle transfers to insurer pending yes
2025-26 SB 6275 Community reinvestment prg. pending yes
2025-26 SB 6276 Workforce ed. inv. account pending no
2025-26 SB 6282 Apprenticeships/wellness pending yes
2025-26 SB 6325 Higher education procedures pending yes
2025-26 SB 6326 School district accounting pending no
2025-26 SR 8605 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pending no
2025-26 SR 8611 Keri Rawlings Rooney pending no
2025-26 SR 8661 Martin Luther King, Jr. day pending no
2025-26 SR 8664 Youth sports pending no
2025-26 SR 8665 Black history month pending no
2023-24 SB 5070 Nonfatal strangulation became law yes
2023-24 SB 5071 Purple star award died yes
2023-24 SSB 5072 Highly capable students became law yes
2023-24 SSB 5081 Victim notification became law yes
2023-24 SB 5095 Parks/health & wellness died yes
2023-24 SB 5196 OL Reign license plate died yes
2023-24 SB 5247 Climate-ready communities died yes
2023-24 ESSB 5257 Elementary school recess became law yes
2023-24 SB 5296 Military service credit died yes
2023-24 SSB 5317 RTA vehicle removal became law yes
2023-24 SB 5318 Estate recovery died yes
2023-24 SB 5339 Free school meals died yes
2023-24 SB 5423 Working conn. child care died yes
2023-24 SSB 5588 Mental health sentencing alt became law yes
2023-24 SB 5591 Dependent youth financial ed died yes
2023-24 SB 5711 College grant eligibility died yes
2023-24 SB 5736 Workforce shortages died yes
2023-24 SB 5894 Equal pay/protected classes died yes
2023-24 SB 5895 Academic employee bargaining died yes
2023-24 SB 5896 Financial aid terms died no
2023-24 SB 5904 Financial aid terms became law yes
2023-24 SB 5910 Smokey Bear license plates died yes
2023-24 SB 5964 Free school meals died yes
2023-24 SB 6082 Paraeducator compensation died yes
2023-24 SB 6156 Local elections died no
2023-24 SB 6159 Superintendent/task forces died no
2023-24 SB 6172 Birth doulas died no
2023-24 SB 6173 Housing sales tax/use became law yes
2023-24 SB 6208 Public school materials died yes
2023-24 SB 6216 Student mental health net. died yes
2023-24 SB 6253 Learning assistance program died no
2023-24 SB 6254 Student navigational support died yes
2023-24 SB 6275 African American studies died no
2023-24 SB 6283 Connecting communities prg. became law yes
2023-24 SB 6314 Social studies instruction died no
2023-24 SR 8604 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died no
2023-24 SR 8613 Washington National Guard died no
2023-24 SR 8619 Black History Month died no
2023-24 SR 8666 Gregory & Evelyn Christopher died no
2023-24 SR 8672 Black history month died no
2021-22 2SSB 5183 Nonfatal strangulation became law yes
2021-22 SB 5184 K-12 foster care contact became law yes
2021-22 E2SSB 5259 Law enforcement data became law yes
2021-22 SB 5292 Parks Rx pilot program died yes
2021-22 2SSB 5293 Mental health sentencing alt became law yes
2021-22 ESSB 5321 College bound scholarship became law yes
2021-22 SB 5448 Vehicle fee/tax payment plan died yes
2021-22 SB 5824 Dependent youth financial ed died yes
2021-22 SSB 5838 Diaper subsidy/TANF became law yes
2021-22 ESSB 5874 Military student residency became law yes
2021-22 SR 8634 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 100 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

  • Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education
  • Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development
  • 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 2026-08-07

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.

$378K

raised, 2024 cycle

$364K

spent

$500

average contribution

Total divided by 756 reported contributors.

$1.4M

raised across 2 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
2024 $377,953 $364,313 756
2020 $979,826 $966,684 3,414

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
WA Senate Demo Camp / WSDC Seattle $16,662
28th Legislative District Democratic Central Comm University Place $7,000
Active in Democracy (AID) / Tacoma Firefighters Union Tacoma $2,400
Campaign For Tribal Self Reliance / WA Indian Gaming Assn Olympia $2,400
Connie Ballmer Bellevue $2,400
Credit Union Leg Action Fund / NW Credit Union Assn SeaTac $2,400
FairVote Washington PAC Seattle $2,400
Harry Truman Fund Seattle $2,400
IUPAT Political Action Together Leg Ed Committee Hanover $2,400
Jeffrey S. Raikes Seattle $2,400
Justice for All PAC Seattle $2,400
Kennedy Fund Seattle $2,400
Lisa Mennet Seattle $2,400
Public School Employees (PSE) SEIU 1948 Political Fund Campaign Account Auburn $2,400
Puget Sound Energy Bellevue $2,400

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.

Same-day contributions from colleagues at one employer
Date Cycle Employer Donors Total
2020-07-24 2020 T-MOBILE 6 $2,043
2020-10-02 2020 MICROSOFT 5 $3,453
2020-11-05 2020 City of Tacoma 5 $581
2020-10-16 2020 MICROSOFT 4 $2,300
2020-04-08 2020 CITY OF TACOMA 4 $700
2020-10-16 2020 KING COUNTY 4 $656
2020-09-24 2020 MICROSOFT 4 $350
2020-07-24 2020 CITY OF SEATTLE 3 $1,128
2020-09-24 2020 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 3 $775
2020-09-04 2020 UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND 3 $606
2020-07-17 2020 MICROSOFT 3 $453
2020-05-06 2020 UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND 3 $375

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

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
PCVA 2 $3,200
Potential Unleashed Consulting 2 $1,500
University of Puget Sound 3 $1,053
Windermere 2 $1,000
City of Tacoma 4 $956
MultiCare 2 $800
Ibew 2 $753
Independent Colleges of Washington 2 $700
Erin Jones 2 $675
RVC Seattle 2 $611

Only 22.6% 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 T'wina Nobles to PDC filer FRANT 464 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (28) 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 FRANT 464

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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 28 4 years 2028 May 2028

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 28th Legislative District

    WA Legislature member roster

  • SERVED — 2025-26

    Senate, Legislative District 28

    WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26

  • SERVED — 2023-24

    Senate, Legislative District 28

    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

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“State Senator T’wina Nobles,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-10. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/t-wina-nobles/

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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.