# Chipalo Street

Chipalo Street is a Democratic member of the Washington House for district 37.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Washington House, district 37
- Serving since: 2023-01-09
- Current term: WA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/84aaed1c-e50a-4bbc-8f63-afd22e825ec2

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/84aaed1c-e50a-4bbc-8f63-afd22e825ec2 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Street sits at −0.89 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 84% of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.89 (standard error 0.03), from 434 donors and 592 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 16% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (WA 2025–26 session)

1,204 roll calls. Attendance 98.0% (Washington House 97.4%). Party unity 100% (94.5%). 4 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (WA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 18 bills: 18 reached committee, 3 passed one chamber, 3 passed both, 3 became law. Cosponsored 171. 16.7% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Washington House 27.1%; rank 71 of 96).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 2734: Creating a hunger free Washington through a sugar-sweetened beverage tax and precluding a supplemental nutrition assistance program waiver. (in committee, 2026-02-06) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2734/
- HB 2730: Clarifying the metric for judging the effectiveness of aerospace tax preferences. (in committee, 2026-02-20) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2730/
- HB 2610: Ensuring nonprofit housing providers qualify for a property tax exemption when the property is temporarily used for certain community purposes other than… (became law, 2026-03-18) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2610/
- HB 2567: Concerning the Washington college grant and college bound scholarship program for students attending private four-year not-for-profit institutions of higher… (in committee, 2026-02-04) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2567/
- HB 2539: Concerning inmate funds. (became law, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2539/
- HB 2480: Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones. (in committee, 2026-02-03) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2480/
- HJM 4010: Requesting an investigation into the killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. (in committee, 2026-01-15) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HJM4010/
- HB 2082: Increasing funding to the education legacy trust account by creating a more progressive rate structure for the capital gains tax and estate tax. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2082/
- HB 2019: Making the estate tax more progressive. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2019/
- HB 1986: Concerning the application of taxes to sales of motor vehicles for use in retail car rentals. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB1986/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $72.4K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 97% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://housedemocrats.wa.gov/street/
- Campaign site: https://electchipalo.com/
- X: https://x.com/chipalost
- X: https://x.com/electchipalo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/electchipalo/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepChipaloStreet/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chipalo
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chipalost/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electchipalo/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chipalo/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/84aaed1c-e50a-4bbc-8f63-afd22e825ec2