Secure Access Washington (SAW) maintenance

Secure Access Washington (SAW) is applying standard updates and patches on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. SAW and services that use SAW (including PDC applications) will be inaccessible for about 40 minutes during the maintenance window, which is between 5:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. on that day.

PDC staff is working remotely

The PDC remains available for remote assistance, consistent with the governor's emergency proclamations. Please contact us for assistance at (360) 753-1111 or pdc@pdc.wa.gov.

Registration & Reporting

Are you involved in a campaign or lobbying? Or, are you an elected or appointed official? You’re in the right place to register and report required disclosures.

Candidates & Committees

Learn how to register your candidacy or committee and report campaign financial activity, including contributions and expenses.

Personal Financial Affairs Disclosure

Report required personal financial data at the start of a campaign and annually if you’re elected or appointed to office.

Incidental Committees

Learn if you qualify as an incidental committee and how to register and start reporting.

Lobbying

Learn how and when to report lobbying expenses and which activities must be reported.

Independent Expenditures

Learn when to report independent expenditures made in support of or opposition to a candidate or ballot measure as well as electioneering communications that identify a candidate.

Forms & Reports Directory

Know what you’re looking for? View a list of all PDC reports, with links to online filing tools.

Candidate Registration (C-1)

Last Minute Contributions (LMC)

Independent Expenditures (C-6)

Incidental Committee Registration (C-1ic)

Reporting Tips

Check out the latest updates on reporting tools and resources — as well as timely reporting tips.

Comment on potential PDC legislative priorities

08/17/2022

The Public Disclosure Commission has identified the following list of possible priorities for its 2023 legislative agenda. The Commission is seeking input on these issues to assist in the final preparation of any potential agency request legislation.

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For candidates who lost the primary

08/11/2022

You may have contributions for the general election made to the campaign before the primary.

If a donor reaches the contribution limit for contributions to the primary election, sometimes they’ll give more, and those donations are for the general election. If the candidate isn’t going on…

Last-minute contribution reporting threshold raised

06/28/2022

The new threshold for expedited reporting of large, last-minute contributions is $1,500, following action by the Public Disclosure Commission at its June meeting. The change takes effect June 30, 2022, in time for the primary election’s special reporting period that begins July 26.

Under…

Reporting System Outages

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System Outages