Commonwealth Report Legislators Method

House · Democrat

Andrew Tarr

Current member · 5th Essex

Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.

Residence

Gloucester

First elected

House 2026 (special)

Seats held, General Courts 189–194 (the FY2017–FY2026 budgets)
SessionChamberDistrictLinesNote
194th (2025–26)House5th Essex2021 lines

Posts and stipends

No stipend payments to Andrew Tarr are recorded for 2016–2026.

Posts and stipends by session (stipends by calendar year)
SessionPostsFirst yearSecond year
194th (2025–26)No post recordednot available$0 (to date)

Posts: the Legislature’s leadership and roster records as compiled for this project; where those name no post, the member’s committee chair, vice-chair and ranking roles from the Legislature’s member profiles. Stipends: additional compensation in the Comptroller’s payroll data (CTHRU dataset 9ttk-7vz6), 2016–2026; 2026 is the year to date. Stipends for 2015 are not available. Base salary is not included.

The district

5th Essex on its 2021 lines: 4 cities and towns, 45,791 residents (2020).

Gloucester · Rockport · Manchester-by-the-Sea · Essex

Percentages are each place’s share of the district’s 2020 residents; for a town split between districts, the share of the town inside this one follows.

Population-weighted Fairness Index of the district’s cities and towns: 29 for all state aid and 69 for discretionary money (50 is a fair share).

Local earmarks are counted three ways. District money uses the first, clauses that name a place in the district; the second table adds organizations located in the district (placed in the district) and state facilities located there (everything placed). Three ways to count a local earmark.

District money, first measure: enacted earmarks in clauses naming a place in the district, by session (district money, not the member’s)
SessionDistrictDollarsIn corrective clausesPer resident per budget, rankWithout corrective clauses, rank
194th (2025–26)5th Essex$807,000$0$17.63 · 27th of 160$17.63 · 27th of 160

District money is where enacted earmarks land, by the place a clause names, mapped to districts by 2020 population; it is not attributed to the member and does not include leadership’s base-text money that names no place. Ranks are of district money per resident among the chamber’s districts, 1 = most. “In corrective clauses” is the part carried by a Ways and Means chair’s corrective amendments, which is leadership’s money; the last column gives the per-resident figure and rank without it. Sessions are labeled by the General Court that enacted each budget. Per-resident figures use the district as drawn for each session (2011 lines through the 192nd General Court, 2021 lines from the 193rd), so they will not equal a session’s dollars divided by the resident count above.

The same district on the other two measures, by session (enacted; includes any corrective-clause money)
SessionDistrictPlaced in the districtPer resident per budget, rankEverything placedPer resident per budget, rank
194th (2025–26)5th Essex$807,000$17.63 · 29th of 160$807,000$17.63 · 35th of 160

Budget amendments

No budget amendments sponsored by Andrew Tarr are recorded for FY2017–FY2026.

The amendment corpus covers every amendment filed to the House and Senate budgets, FY2017–FY2026. Leadership shapes the budget mostly through base text and conference, which no member is credited with here.

Bills sponsored

Andrew Tarr filed 0 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; zero were enacted on their own. Only the 194th General Court, still in session, is covered, so no enacted rate is given.

Most bills die in every legislature, and many policies pass inside other bills; the chamber median for the same session is the fair comparison.

Bills filed as lead sponsor, by session and outcome
SessionChamberLead billsEnacted rateChamber medianCosponsored
194th (2025–26)House0no bills filed1%0

Outcomes are the furthest point each bill reached in the record. “Folded into an enacted bill” means the history names the enacted bill that absorbed it. “Passed both branches; no chapter recorded” means the bill was enacted by both branches and laid before the Governor, with no chapter or veto in the history; in the 194th General Court such bills are shown as laid before the Governor (pending). The 194th General Court is in session until January 2027, so its open bills are pending, not dead, and its rates (*) are not comparable with completed sessions. Chairs and leaders control the calendar, which raises their rates. Source: malegislature.gov bill histories.

Recorded votes on accountability measures

Andrew Tarr cast one yes-or-no vote on the one accountability roll call in this file (one yes, zero no).

Roll calls on rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay
DateMeasureVoteChamber result
June 3, 2026Engross H.5469 (public records law applied to the Legislature). Reform advocates split (contested meaning)YesYeas 125, nays 28

Votes marked “contested meaning” are rules-package and public-records passage votes; reform advocates were on both sides of them. Descriptions are the project’s plain summaries of each question, or the question as recorded for rules-package roll calls; the official record is on malegislature.gov. Votes are facts; no score is computed.

Campaign money in

Andrew Tarr’s committee reported $38,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2025–2026.

By year (years in the Legislature)
YearContributions
2025$10,000
2026$28,000
By kind of contributor
KindTotalShare
Individuals$35,00091%
Political committees and PACs$2,7507%
Unions and associations$7502%
Individuals’ money by the employer they reported
Employer reportedShare
A named employer40%
Self-employed24%
Retired2%
Not employed33%
Not reported or withheld1%

Not counted as contributions: $2,801 in other receipts of $250 or more in the same years (candidate loans and the candidate’s own money, transfers, refunds, bank interest and aggregated small receipts).

Largest employers and organizations
Employer or organizationKindTotalContributions
SAWYER FREE LIBRARYindividuals, by employer$3,0003
CVC CAPITAL PARTNERSindividuals, by employer$2,0002
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTSindividuals, by employer$1,5004
ENDICOTT COLLEGEindividuals, by employer$1,0001
UNITED NATIONSindividuals, by employer$1,0001
ICSIindividuals, by employer$1,0001
RE MAX BEACONindividuals, by employer$1,0002
CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL LABORERS LOCAL 385union or association$5001
LOCAL 509 SERVICE EMPLOYEES INT'L UNION COMM ON POL ED MA WORKERS' POL ACTION COMMcommittee or PAC$5001
MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMMcommittee or PAC$5001

Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Tarr Committee (CPF 19580). Individuals are grouped by the employer they reported; no individual contributor is named, and an employer field that is a person’s name is withheld. Massachusetts bars business contributions to candidates. Employer shows affiliation, not instruction.

Sources

Every figure traces to a public record.

Facts only: posts, stipends, sponsored amendments, enacted items, roll-call votes and district money. No score or grade is computed. Associations shown here are not evidence of cause. Method.