Registration & Reporting

Register your nonprofit as an incidental committee and start reporting contributions and expenditures. 

Guidelines & Restrictions 

Be compliant with Washington’s campaign financial disclosure laws—from political advertising guidelines to contribution limits and more. 

Reporting Tips

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

09/12/2024

Filers: The PDC's ORCA online filing system now allows you to amend contribution reports, or C-3s, to show zero contributions.  

The software still does not allow you to file a report for the first time showing zero receipts (if you have no receipts, you don't need to file a C-…

07/26/2024

The Public Disclosure Commission will launch a new online reporting method for out-of-state political committee reports (C-5) on Aug. 6.  

The PDC will no longer accept the paper forms as of that date. State law requires PDC reports to be filed electronically when the agency…

06/25/2024

As part of the Public Disclosure Commission’s ongoing effort to redesign its online lobbying reporting system, the agency today launched a new lobbying reporting dashboard.

The new dashboard display allows filers to submit lobbyist registrations (L-1), monthly lobbying reports (L-2) and…

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