SB 5035 — Concerning voter education during a period in which a jurisdiction is changing the method of selecting candidates.
Congress · introduced 2025-01-13
AN ACT Relating to requiring voter education within jurisdictions engaged in changing the method of selecting candidates during a primary or removing a primary as the result of employing a single event election process in a general election including a new cause of action;
Latest action: 2026-01-12 — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Sponsors
- Chapman, Mike (D, WA-24) — sponsor · 2025-01-13
- Hasegawa, Bob (D, WA-11) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Dhingra, Manka (D, WA-45) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Nobles, T'wina (D, WA-28) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
Action timeline
- · senate — First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections.
- · senate — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Text versions
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Connected on the graph
Inbound (4)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-13 | Chapman, Mike | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Dhingra, Manka | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Hasegawa, Bob | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Nobles, T'wina | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapman, Mike (D, state_upper WA-24) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Dhingra, Manka (D, state_upper WA-45) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Hasegawa, Bob (D, state_upper WA-11) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Nobles, T'wina (D, state_upper WA-28) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Hasegawa, Bob (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · sponsored by Chapman, Mike (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Dhingra, Manka (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Nobles, T'wina (cosponsor) · sponsorship