Nonpartisan · Data from OpenStates / Plural Policy · Washington
Votes with Republicans
98%
on 368 party-line votes · Senate Republicans median 94%
Cast a vote
98%
Yea or Nay on 1,203 of 1,224 roll calls · Senate median 97%
Their bills that became law
5 of 20
as a primary sponsor, this session · Republicans median 6
Roll calls on record
1,224
2025-2026 Regular Session
Votes and bills updated Oct 6, 2026 from LegiScan (CC BY 4.0), which republishes the legislature’s own records. Profile details from OpenStates / Plural Policy. Figures cover 2025-2026 Regular Session.
How Shelly Short votes
A party-line vote is a roll call where most voting Democrats and most voting Republicans took opposite sides. Absences and not-voting are never counted. Same method as our Congress pages.
Where Shelly Short sits in the Senate
Each dot is one member of the Senate, placed by how often they voted on the Democratic side of party-line votes. Shelly Short is circled.
Always on the Republican sideAlways on the Democratic side
Times they broke with their party
9 of 368 party-line votes.
HB1903 · Establishing a statewide low-income energy assistance program.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · 2026-03-06 · Passed 35–13 · most Republicans voted the other way
HB2416 · Concerning fair treatment of waste to energy facilities under the climate commitment act.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · 2026-03-04 · Passed 39–10 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB5647 · Providing a real estate excise tax exemption for the sale of qualified affordable housing.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage · 2026-02-28 · Passed 38–11 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB5924 · Expanding prescriptive authority for pharmacists.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage · 2026-02-17 · Passed 38–11 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB6079 · Revised for 1st substitute: Reducing nonrenewal and cancellations of insurance policies due to wildfire risk.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage · 2026-02-13 · Passed 37–11 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB5184 · Concerning minimum parking requirements.
Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House · 2025-04-17 · Passed 36–13 · most Republicans voted the other way
HB1185 · Concerning membership on the correctional industries advisory committee.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage · 2025-04-16 · Passed 37–12 · most Republicans voted the other way
HB1418 · Adding two voting members that are transit users to the governing body of public transportation benefit areas.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · 2025-04-16 · Passed 36–12 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB5017 · Adopting national standards for uniformed and overseas civilian voting, including conforming amendments to existing statute.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage · 2025-02-12 · Passed 39–10 · most Republicans voted the other way
Closest votes they cast
Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.
SB6260 · Implementing efficiencies and programming changes in public education.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage · 2026-03-03 · Passed 25–24
SB5786 · Increasing license, permit, and endorsement fees.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage · 2025-04-17 · Passed 25–24
SB5583 · Concerning recreational fishing and hunting licenses.
Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage · 2025-03-26 · Passed 25–24
SB5434 · Establishing balanced legislative oversight of gubernatorial powers during a declared emergency.
Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections: 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass · 2025-02-21 · Passed 5–4
SB5423 · Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner.
Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology: do pass · 2025-02-21 · Passed 6–5
Democrats they vote with most
Share of contested roll calls (the losing side got at least 10%) where both voted and landed on the same side. Unanimous votes are left out, because on those everyone agrees.
Deb KrishnadasanDemocrat · District 26 · 441 shared contested votes
29%
Adrian CortesDemocrat · District 18 · 431 shared contested votes
25%
Mike ChapmanDemocrat · District 24 · 434 shared contested votes
23%
Their session, month by month
Dark bars are roll calls they were recorded on each month; the red part is the ones without a Yea or Nay (21 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.
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Their bills, from filing to law
Bills Shelly Short was a primary sponsor of this session. Most bills from either party never leave committee; in Illinois many never get past the Assignments or Rules committee.
Introduced20
Out of committee11
Passed one chamber10
Passed both chambers5
Became law5
Never left committee9
For comparison, the median Republican member of the Senate has 6 bills that became law this session.
Requesting Congress to ensure that federal wildfire response entities have the capacity to protect communities and infrastructure, limit impacts to natural resources and watersheds, and protect wildland firefighter health and safety.
Passed one chamberBy resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading. · 2026-03-12
Allowing limited exemptions to renewable energy systems requirements for certain school districts.
Passed one chamberBy resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading. · 2026-03-12
Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan, a union-sponsored defined benefit retirement plan, or another employer-funded private pension plan.
Passed one chamberBy resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading. · 2026-03-12
Creating a license endorsement to allow qualified licensed chiropractors to perform chiropractic diagnosis and adjustments on nonhuman animals.
Passed one chamberBy resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading. · 2026-03-12
Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning boundary line surveys on public lands owned or managed by the department of natural resources.
Passed one chamberSenate Rules "X" file. · 2026-02-26
Restoring and sustaining healthy ungulate populations.
Not out of committeeExecutive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM. · 2026-02-02
Addressing appropriations for long-term forest health and wildfire reduction.
Not out of committeePublic hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM. · 2026-01-27
Concerning residency requirements for charity care.
Not out of committeeFirst reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. · 2026-01-12
Concerning public participation requirements for department of fish and wildlife actions.
Not out of committeeFirst reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. · 2026-01-12
Modifying the standards for determining water quality pollution.
Not out of committeeFirst reading, referred to Environment, Energy & Technology. · 2026-01-12
Exempting email addresses of individuals who subscribe to regular communications and updates from local agencies.
Not out of committeeBy resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. · 2026-01-12
Concerning membership in the state building code council.
Not out of committeeBy resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. · 2026-01-12
Providing flexibility for the department of fish and wildlife to collaborate with local governments to manage gray wolves.
Not out of committeeBy resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. · 2026-01-12
Concerning livestock damage due to wolf predation.
Out of committeeBy resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. · 2026-01-12
Descriptions are the legislature’s own synopsis. Bill data from LegiScan, CC BY 4.0.
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HB1408 · 2026-03-12
Establishing funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060. (Senate Final Passage without Senate Amendments)
SB6355 · 2026-03-12
Concerning the electric transmission system. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
HB2215 · 2026-03-12
Concerning climate commitment act compliance obligations for fuels supplied or otherwise sold into Washington. (Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate)
HB1295 · 2026-03-12
Using evidence-based instructional practices in reading and writing literacy for public elementary students. (Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate)
SB6260 · 2026-03-12
Implementing efficiencies and programming changes in public education. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6347 · 2026-03-12
Revised for engrossed: Undoing certain changes to the estate tax. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6354 · 2026-03-12
Advancing transportation electrification by expanding access to electric vehicles already being sold in Washington and increasing associated funding. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6225 · 2026-03-12
Authorizing bonds for transportation funding. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6228 · 2026-03-12
Revised for engrossed: Removing a tax exemption for the warehousing and reselling of prescription drugs and providing tax relief for critical access pharmacies. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5998 · 2026-03-12
Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations. (Senate Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee)
SB6005 · 2026-03-12
Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium. (Senate Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee)
SB6003 · 2026-03-12
Concerning the capital budget. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
HB2711 · 2026-03-11
Concerning transportation resources. (Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate)
HB2689 · 2026-03-11
Concerning the working connections child care program. (Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate)
HB2681 · 2026-03-11
Revised for engrossed: Concerning cannabis license fees. (Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage)
HB2487 · 2026-03-11
Concerning taxes imposed on insurers operating within the state. (Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage)
HB2089 · 2026-03-11
Supporting wildfire mitigation by modifying RCW 82.04.29005, concerning taxes on loan interest. (Senate 3rd Reading & Final Passage)
SB6346 · 2026-03-11
Establishing a tax on millionaires. (Senate Final Passage As Amended by the House)
SB6002 · 2026-03-10
Concerning driver privacy protections. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6110 · 2026-03-10
Addressing electric-assisted bicycles and electric motorcycles. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5982 · 2026-03-10
Updating provisions for consumer-owned utilities, including port districts, and affected market customers under the clean energy transformation act. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6035 · 2026-03-10
Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6113 · 2026-03-10
Concerning taxes administered by the department of revenue. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6054 · 2026-03-10
Concerning unreasonable restrictions on wildfire home hardening practices in common interest communities. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6309 · 2026-03-10
Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6137 · 2026-03-10
Concerning the regulated sports wagering industry. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6246 · 2026-03-10
Concerning emissions from emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facilities under the climate commitment act. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6027 · 2026-03-10
Revised for 2nd substitute: Modifying certain funding and exemptions related to providing and maintaining affordable housing and related services. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6076 · 2026-03-10
Streamlining consumer-owned utility procurement requirements for clean energy generation, energy storage, transmission, and distribution projects. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6194 · 2026-03-10
Revised for engrossed: Allowing payments to be made for services provided by any rural hospital that is located on a federally recognized Indian reservation. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6269 · 2026-03-10
Modernizing the definition of motor fuel in the motor fuel quality act. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6026 · 2026-03-10
Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6226 · 2026-03-10
Protecting the clinical autonomy of audiologists. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6034 · 2026-03-10
Concerning statutory establishment of the governor's office of Indian affairs. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6162 · 2026-03-10
Concerning property tax reform. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6200 · 2026-03-10
Concerning renters' and mobile home occupants' ability to install portable cooling devices. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5847 · 2026-03-10
Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6065 · 2026-03-10
Concerning school district transportation vehicle funds. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
HB2325 · 2026-03-10
Establishing a tourism self-supported assessment program to fund statewide tourism promotion. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the Senate)
SB6058 · 2026-03-10
Adding discretion to wage enforcement actions. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6066 · 2026-03-10
Revised for 2nd substitute: Establishing crash prevention zones. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6188 · 2026-03-10
Concerning the department of labor and industries' authority to enact rules related to regulating asbestos training. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB6291 · 2026-03-10
Concerning on-site wastewater treatment system inspections. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5346 · 2026-03-09
Revised for 1st substitute: Addressing student use of mobile devices in public schools. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5068 · 2026-03-09
Concerning agencies, firefighters, prosecutors, and general or limited authority law enforcement, extending eligibility for employment to all United States citizens or persons legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5841 · 2026-03-09
Concerning the completion of postsecondary financial aid applications. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5420 · 2026-03-09
Ensuring access to state benefits and opportunities for veterans, uniformed service members, and military spouses. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5892 · 2026-03-09
Concerning protection of the voter registration database. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5938 · 2026-03-09
Concerning the foreclosure prevention fee. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5981 · 2026-03-09
Revised for 2nd substitute: Concerning the 340B drug pricing program. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5925 · 2026-03-09
Concerning the general powers and duties of the attorney general’s office. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5156 · 2026-03-09
Concerning elevator standards in smaller apartment buildings. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5395 · 2026-03-09
Making improvements to transparency and accountability in the prior authorization determination process. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5969 · 2026-03-09
Revised for 2nd substitute: Reducing duplication between high school and beyond plans and individualized education program transition plans. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5855 · 2026-03-09
Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5272 · 2026-03-09
Improving school safety by extending penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and extracurricular activities and requiring schools to notify the public of such penalties. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5845 · 2026-03-09
Modernizing and clarifying timely payment requirements for health carriers. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5974 · 2026-03-09
Modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, town marshals, law enforcement agency volunteers, youth cadets, specially commissioned officers, and police matrons. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5880 · 2026-03-09
Concerning toxicology testing by certified or accredited laboratories. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
SB5911 · 2026-03-09
Strengthening the financial stability of persons in the care of the department of children, youth, and families. (Senate Final Passage as Amended by the House)
Complete voting record from LegiScan (showing the 60 most recent of 1224 total roll-call votes this session).
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