Registration & Reporting 

Learn about financial reporting, including registration and reporting options, how to report, and what to do at the end of a campaign. 

Guidelines & Restrictions 

Learn how to comply with Washington’s campaign financial disclosure laws — from political advertising to public inspection of records and more. 

Reporting Tips

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

09/11/2023

The Public Disclosure Commission is updating its public agency lobbying reporting to use the Secure Access Washington (SAW) single sign-on system.  

Starting today, all public agency lobbyist filers can begin to link their SAW account to the PDC’s L-5 reporting system. Users are strongly…

03/13/2023

At its February meeting, the Commission voted to make inflationary adjustments to campaign finance reporting thresholds and contribution limits. The new, higher limits take effect April 1, 2023.

The change in the reporting thresholds and contribution limits reflect changes in economic…

02/02/2023

Following two years of delivering enhancements and new features in our ORCA system, we’re about to unveil the biggest upgrade of them all.

Starting March 1, 2023, ORCA (Online Reporting of Campaign Activity) will operate as a fully web-based system, without a desktop application.

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