# Tom Dent

Tom Dent is a Republican member of the Washington House for district 13.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Washington House, district 13
- Serving since: 2015-01-12
- Current term: WA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a954dff9-39d6-4340-8070-5ef437438cda

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a954dff9-39d6-4340-8070-5ef437438cda (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

Dent missed 14% of 1,204 roll calls, attendance in the bottom tenth of the Washington House (average 97.4%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.40 (standard error 0.01), from 305 donors and 1,146 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 59% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (WA 2025–26 session)

1,204 roll calls. Attendance 86% (Washington House 97.4%). Party unity 91.5% (94.5%). 57 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (WA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 27 bills: 27 reached committee, 10 passed one chamber, 9 passed both, 8 became law. Cosponsored 82. 37.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Washington House 27.1%; rank 25 of 96).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 2642: Exempting emissions associated with lubricants from coverage under the cap and invest program. (in committee, 2026-01-23) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2642/
- HB 2619: Reducing regulatory stress in agriculture. (in committee, 2026-03-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2619/
- HB 2620: Restoring collaboration in the forest practices rule-making process for the benefit of long-term protection of natural resources and the forest products… (in committee, 2026-02-03) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2620/
- HB 2584: Providing a sales and use tax exemption for qualifying farm machinery and equipment. (in committee, 2026-02-06) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2584/
- HB 2529: Concerning the department of children, youth, and families accountability board. (in committee, 2026-01-28) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2529/
- HB 2511: Providing a definition for imminent physical harm in the context of child welfare. (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2511/
- HB 2348: Updating timber sale process efficiencies and adopting consistent language for the department's land sales. (became law, 2026-03-20) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2348/
- HB 2357: Establishing the Washington division of civil air patrol as part of the Washington military department. (in committee, 2026-01-30) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2357/
- HB 2327: Directing an audit of county forest board lands. (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2327/
- HB 2347: Reducing the impact of the luxury aircraft tax. (in committee, 2026-03-10) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2347/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $39.0K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 96% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://tomdent.houserepublicans.wa.gov/
- Campaign site: https://www.tomdent.us/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tom.dent.773/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tom.dent.3152/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066731647250
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-dent-a3816634

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a954dff9-39d6-4340-8070-5ef437438cda