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Senator Short

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber Senate
Acronym SHOR
District 7
Name Shelly Short
Party Republican
Email shelly.short@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) $834,980.56

15 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SSB 5165 Concerning compensation in frontier one counties for deer and elk damage.
Details SB 5334 Adding the department of natural resources' civil enforcement decisions under RCW 76.04.205 to appeals that may be heard by the pollution control hearings board.
Details SB 5343 Concerning the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account.
Details ESSB 5009 Accommodating multiple vehicle types for transporting students.
Details SB 5036 Strengthening Washington's leadership and accountability on climate policy by transitioning to annual reporting of statewide emissions data.
Details SSB 5212 Concerning filing of adjudication claims for precode uses of groundwater and surface water in the water resource inventory area 1 water rights adjudication.
Details SB 5467 Concerning the sale of surplus property by water-sewer districts.
Details ESSB 5552 Concerning the creation of building codes for kit homes.
Details SSB 5558 Concerning timelines for growth management comprehensive plan and development regulation updates.
Details SB 5641 Encouraging public school instruction in awareness of blood donation.
Details SB 5669 Concerning irrigation district elections.
Details SB 5680 Establishing a right to repair for mobility equipment for persons with physical disabilities.
Details ESB 5689 Adding blood type information to drivers' licenses and identicards.
Details SSB 6091 Prohibiting real estate brokers from marketing residential properties to an exclusive group of prospective buyers or real estate brokers.
Details SSB 6149 Concerning the definition of "rural county" for purposes of public facilities funding.

78 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SSB 5170 Concerning boundary line surveys on public lands owned or managed by the department of natural resources.
Details SSB 5171 Concerning livestock damage due to wolf predation.
Details SB 5173 Concerning county comprehensive plans and development regulations.
Details SB 5354 Providing flexibility for the department of fish and wildlife to collaborate with local governments to manage gray wolves.
Details SB 5429 Concerning membership in the state building code council.
Details SB 5707 Exempting email addresses of individuals who subscribe to regular communications and updates from local agencies.
Details SB 5893 Addressing appropriations for long-term forest health and wildfire reduction.
Details SB 5896 Modifying the standards for determining water quality pollution.
Details ESB 5899 Creating a license endorsement to allow qualified licensed chiropractors to perform chiropractic diagnosis and adjustments on nonhuman animals.
Details SB 5908 Concerning public participation requirements for department of fish and wildlife actions.
Details SSB 5905 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.
Details SSB 5941 Allowing limited exemptions to renewable energy systems requirements for certain school districts.
Details SB 5959 Concerning residency requirements for charity care.
Details SB 5960 Restoring and sustaining healthy ungulate populations.
Details SB 5015 Increasing efficiency at the energy facility site evaluation council by removing the governor from the project approval process.
Details SB 5026 Dedicating the state sales tax on motor vehicles for transportation.
Details SB 5034 Eliminating the expiration of the interagency, multijurisdictional system improvement team.
Details SB 5047 Establishing protections for citizens participating in the initiative and referendum process.
Details SB 5050 Concerning the privacy of party selections during presidential primaries.
Details SB 5057 Concerning ownership of agricultural real estate.
Details 2SSB 5060 Increasing the number of law enforcement agency and county corrections officer personnel.
Details SB 5089 Concerning funding rural county coroners and medical examiners.
Details SB 5091 Concerning motor vehicle emission standards for Washington.
Details SB 5097 Safeguarding competitiveness in girls' interscholastic athletic activities.
Details SSB 5117 Protecting agriculture.
Details SSB 5430 Concerning approval of electric utility wildfire mitigation plans.
Details SSB 5434 Establishing balanced legislative oversight of gubernatorial powers during a declared emergency.
Details SB 5442 Establishing a college promise pilot program.
Details SB 5454 Extending the dairy inspection program until June 30, 2031.
Details SB 5461 Concerning residential development in limited areas of more intensive rural development.
Details SB 5487 Authorizing agricultural employers to select 12 weeks a year to employ workers for up to 50 hours a week before overtime applies.
Details SSB 5491 Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.
Details SB 5505 Concerning the state universal communications services program.
Details SB 5513 Expanding pharmacists' scope of practice to improve access to health care and the management of chronic diseases.
Details SB 5524 Creating the donate life special license plate.
Details SB 5577 Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
Details SB 5588 Concerning the relationships between health carriers and contracting providers.
Details SB 5623 Concerning recommendations of the public records exemptions accountability committee.
Details SB 5624 Developing best practices for responding to electric vehicle fires.
Details SB 5630 Continuing to provide payments to support farm fuel users and transporters for exempt fuel under the Washington climate commitment act.
Details SB 5639 Providing tuition and fee waivers at public institutions of higher education for children of murdered parents.
Details SB 5645 Transferring extraordinary revenue collections from the estate tax to the developmental disabilities community services account.
Details ESB 5649 Creating a Washington state supply chain competitiveness infrastructure program.
Details SB 5670 Creating the fuel tax assistance grant program.
Details SB 5699 Concerning limited areas of more intensive rural development.
Details SSB 5703 Concerning fair treatment of municipal solid waste systems.
Details SB 5728 Concerning fish and wildlife commission members.
Details SSB 5738 Permitting individuals retired from the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the public safety employees' retirement system additional opportunities to work for up to 1,040 hours per year while in receipt of pension benefits.
Details SSB 5749 Concerning housing development opportunity zones.
Details SB 5750 Concerning fees for charging electrical vehicles at state facilities.
Details SB 5757 Concerning the distribution of automated traffic safety revenue.
Details SB 5778 Addressing maple syrup processing operations.
Details SB 5810 Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations and 2023-2025 fiscal biennium second supplemental operating appropriations.
Details SB 5821 Integrating advanced nuclear energy into the state energy strategy.
Details SB 5843 Establishing penalties and protections against harassment of initiative and referendum signature gatherers.
Details SB 5850 Establishing protections for citizens participating in the initiative and referendum process.
Details SB 5851 Providing for donations to the sea lion predation control account at the time of vessel registration for the purpose of salmon level preservation.
Details SB 5854 Modifying procedures for releasing sexually violent predators to less restrictive alternative placements.
Details SB 5856 Exempting emissions associated with lubricants from coverage under the cap and invest program.
Details SB 5919 Encouraging fire districts and insurance providers to develop voluntary incentives to promote best practices.
Details SSB 5853 Protecting elected officials from political violence by creating the statewide emergency public official notification system.
Details SSB 5924 Expanding prescriptive authority for pharmacists.
Details ESSB 5928 Concerning wildfire risk models and score disclosure.
Details SB 5996 Concerning commercial shellfish fees.
Details SB 6006 Exempting food banks from the retail sales tax imposed on certain services.
Details SSB 6016 Considering critical aquifer recharge areas when revising an urban growth area.
Details SSB 6050 Expanding the use of distributed energy resources.
Details SB 6075 Requiring fairness in mitigation requirements.
Details SSB 6079 Reducing nonrenewal and cancellations of insurance policies due to wildfire risk.
Details SB 6099 Providing basic taxpayer fairness by delaying department of revenue action with regard to tax changes until rule making is finalized.
Details SB 6104 Protecting agriculture.
Details SB 6187 Modifying the implementation of type nonfish bearing stream water buffer rules adopted by the forest practices board.
Details SB 6216 Updating timber sale process efficiencies and adopting consistent language for the department's land sales.
Details SB 6236 Maintaining the safety of children.
Details SB 6266 Concerning information access by the state auditor.
Details SB 6298 Concerning products manufactured in the United States for the purposes of public works projects.
Details SB 6300 Authorizing school districts to adopt alternative learning standards.
Details SB 6318 Concerning commercial shellfish fees.

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