Senate · Democrat
Barry R. Finegold
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Andover
First elected
House 1996; Senate 2010
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | Senate | Second Essex and Middlesex | 2011 lines | |
| 192nd (2021–22) | Senate | Second Essex and Middlesex | 2011 lines | |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Senate | Second Essex and Middlesex | 2021 lines | |
| 194th (2025–26) | Senate | Second Essex and Middlesex | 2021 lines |
Posts and stipends
Barry R. Finegold was paid $313,292 in leadership and committee stipends from 2019 to 2026 (2026 to date).
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | Chair, Joint Committee on Election Laws; Vice chair, Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight | $22,983 | $32,496 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | Chair, Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity; Vice chair, Joint Committee on Public Service | $34,085 | $34,085 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Chair, Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies; Vice chair, Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs | $48,032 | $48,032 |
| 194th (2025–26) | Chair, Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies; Vice Chair, Senate Intergovernmental Affairs | $52,638 | $40,941 (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
Second Essex and Middlesex on its 2021 lines: 7 cities and towns, 181,376 residents (2020).
Haverhill · Andover · Tewksbury · Wilmington · North Andover · Amesbury · Merrimac
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: 40 for all state aid and 40 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.
| Session | District | Dollars | In corrective clauses | Per resident per budget, rank | Without corrective clauses, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | Second Essex and Middlesex | $920,000 | $0 | $2.43 · 34th of 40 | $2.43 · 34th of 40 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | Second Essex and Middlesex | $2M | $0 | $5.26 · 32nd of 40 | $5.26 · 32nd of 40 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Second Essex and Middlesex | $2.2M | $0 | $6.14 · 34th of 40 | $6.14 · 34th of 40 |
| 194th (2025–26) | Second Essex and Middlesex | $1M | $0 | $5.60 · 34th of 40 | $5.60 · 34th of 40 |
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.
| Session | District | Placed in the district | Per resident per budget, rank | Everything placed | Per resident per budget, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | Second Essex and Middlesex | $1.1M | $2.94 · 37th of 40 | $1.2M | $3.07 · 36th of 40 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | Second Essex and Middlesex | $2.3M | $6.14 · 36th of 40 | $2.3M | $6.14 · 36th of 40 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Second Essex and Middlesex | $2.2M | $6.00 · 37th of 40 | $2.2M | $6.14 · 38th of 40 |
| 194th (2025–26) | Second Essex and Middlesex | $1M | $5.60 · 37th of 40 | $1M | $5.60 · 37th of 40 |
Budget amendments
Barry R. Finegold sponsored 136 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $83.2 million in all.
Amendments sponsored
136
FY2017–FY2026 budgets
Adopted, known outcomes
62%
85 of 136
Chamber rate, same ask sizes
47%
expected at the chamber’s rates
Of the 136 with a known outcome, 85 were adopted (62%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 64 (47%) would have been.
| Year | Amount | Enacted budget text (excerpt) | Amendment |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | $500,000 | “not less than $500,000 to municipalities hosting a department of public health facility that also acts as a department of mental health continuing…” | S3 #412 |
| FY2023 | $500,000 | “as a grant to the Essex County Community Foundation Incorporated to provide: (i) supports to municipalities in the county of Essex to improve schools…” | S4 #756 |
| FY2026 | $250,000 | “a grant program to support youth sports nonprofit programs that primarily serve low-income or marginalized students and that seek to foster improved…” | S3 #93 |
| FY2025 | $250,000 | “a grant program to support youth sports nonprofit programs that primarily serve low-income or marginalized students and that seek to foster improved…” | S4 #289 |
| FY2026 | $100,000 | “the purchase of, or reimbursement for the purchase of, soft shell helmet covers or other related safety equipment for youth football teams, including…” | S3 #895 |
Strong matches: 58 enacted items, $3.8 million (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). A further three weaker text matches are not listed; attribution is inferred from amendment text and is less certain there.
For 4 amendments the sponsor is the first mover named in the amendment text, because the Legislature’s record listed none. Ask size is the larger of the earmark dollars and the line-item change an amendment requests; bands: no dollar amount, under $50,000, $50,000–$250,000, $250,000–$1 million, $1–5 million, $5 million or more. Leadership’s unattributed base-text and corrective-amendment money is never assigned to a member. The comparison describes outcomes; it is not a measure of merit.
Bills sponsored
Barry R. Finegold filed 183 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; 19 were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 13% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against chamber medians of 1% to 3% for the same sessions.
Most bills die in every legislature, and many policies pass inside other bills; the chamber median for the same session is the fair comparison.
| Session | Chamber | Lead bills | Enacted | Folded into an enacted bill | Sent to study | Reported favorably, then died | Reported adversely or withdrawn | No action | Pending (session open) | History not available | Enacted rate | Chamber median | Cosponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | Senate | 20 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20% | 3% | 88 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | Senate | 40 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15% | 2% | 31 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Senate | 65 | 6 | 1 | 25 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9% | 1% | 28 |
| 194th (2025–26) | Senate | 58 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 5%* | 1% | 53 |
Enacted bills as lead sponsor
- S2326 (191st): An Act relative to the Spring Grove Cemetery in the town of Andover · Chapter 36 of the Acts of 2020
- S2384 (191st): An Act relative to the transfer and sale of a certain parcel of land in the town of Tewksbury · Chapter 200 of the Acts of 2020
- S2968 (191st): An Act authorizing the town of Andover to issue pension obligation bonds or notes · Chapter 306 of the Acts of 2020
- S2993 (191st): An Act relative to the Office of the Mayor in the city of Lawrence · Chapter 280 of the Acts of 2020
- S2512 (192nd): An Act authorizing the town of Andover to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption · Chapter 210 of the Acts of 2022
- S2686 (192nd): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for John Carlson, an employee of the Department of Correction · Chapter 79 of the Acts of 2022
- S3114 (192nd): An Act authorizing the increase of a tax exemption for eligible seniors in the town of Tewksbury · Chapter 440 of the Acts of 2022
- S3115 (192nd): An Act authorizing the increase of a tax exemption for eligible veterans in the town of Tewksbury · Chapter 441 of the Acts of 2022
- S3128 (192nd): An Act amending the charter of the town of Tewksbury to change the name of the board of selectmen to select board · Chapter 340 of the Acts of 2022
- S3139 (192nd): An Act authorizing the town of Andover to grant 7 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises · Chapter 307 of the Acts of 2022
- S2454 (193rd): An Act establishing a special purpose revolving fund in the town of North Andover · Chapter 22 of the Acts of 2024
- S2580 (193rd): An Act relative to the residency requirement for the town manager of the town of Andover · Chapter 107 of the Acts of 2024
- S2582 (193rd): An Act authorizing the town of Tewksbury to lease the Louise Davy Trahan Elementary School for not more than 99 years · Chapter 59 of the Acts of 2024
- S2913 (193rd): An Act authorizing the town of Andover to convey a non-exclusive access easement over a certain parcel of land · Chapter 154 of the Acts of 2024
- S2916 (193rd): An Act authorizing the town of Tewksbury to use a certain parcel of land for general recreational purposes · Chapter 181 of the Acts of 2024
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- S2955 (193rd): An Act authorizing the town of Andover to convert a certain parcel of land for general municipal purposes · Chapter 249 of the Acts of 2024
- S1446 (194th): An Act relative to the residency requirement for the town manager of the town of Tewksbury · Chapter 91 of the Acts of 2026
- S2544 (194th): An Act relative to special town meetings petitioned for by residents of the town of Andover · Chapter 83 of the Acts of 2026
- S3230 (194th): An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to acquire interests in certain portions of land owned by the town of Andover which were acquired by the town for Article XCVII purposes · Chapter 164 of the Acts of 2026
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
Barry R. Finegold cast 60 yes-or-no votes on the 63 accountability roll calls in this file (22 yes, 38 no, three for a named candidate).
| Date | Measure | Vote | Chamber result |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 1.1 (Bruce E. Tarr): Posting of Committee Roll Call Votes | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 1.0 (Walter F. Timilty): Improving Access to Records | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 2.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Informal Session | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 3.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Conference Committee Report | No | Yeas 8, nays 31 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 11.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Audit of accounts | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| not available | Joint rules (S9), rules package: question on acceptance of the report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 1.0 (Diana DiZoglio): Non disclosure agreements | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 7.1 (Rebecca L. Rausch): anti-harassment and assault | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 5.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Numbers of bills considered at a hearing | No | Yeas 8, nays 31 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 17.0 (Ryan C. Fattman): Matters considered in an informal session | No | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 25.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Unanimous consent | No | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| not available | Senate rules (S8), rules package: question on acceptance of the report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| not available | Senate President election (contested meaning) | Voted for Karen E. Spilka | not available |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 3.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Members receiving SWM GAA recommendation | No | Yeas 4, nays 35 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 6.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Unanimous consent to go past midnight | Yes | Yeas 6, nays 34 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 7.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Going past 10 pm | No | Yeas 6, nays 34 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 8.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Successive formal sessions | No | Yeas 6, nays 34 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 15.0 (Diana DiZoglio): Anti-harassment and bystander intervention training | No | Yeas 10, nays 29 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 20.0 (Diana DiZoglio): Amendments to other appropriations bills | No | Yeas 5, nays 34 |
| February 11, 2021 | Accessibility; adopted 39-0 (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| February 11, 2021 | Supplier diversity; adopted 39-0 (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 42.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Consideration of further and redrafted amendments | No | Yeas 7, nays 32 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 44.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Hearings | No | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 49.0 (Ryan C. Fattman): Adoption amendment - Rule 24 | No | Yeas 5, nays 34 |
| February 11, 2021 | Minority Leader appointments to committees (partisan allocation) (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 4, nays 35 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 24.0 (Diana DiZoglio): Notice of legislative matters | No | Yeas 5, nays 34 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 1.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): New items on the calendar | No | Yeas 5, nays 34 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 1.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Filing of conference committee report | No | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| February 11, 2021 | Amendment 14.0 (James B. Eldridge): Lengthening public notice period for legislative hearings | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| not available | Senate President election (contested meaning) | Voted for Karen E. Spilka | not available |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 1.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Successive Legislative Days | No | Yeas 4, nays 34 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 2.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Time of recess for consideration of new matters | No | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 5.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Going past 10 pm | No | Yeas 4, nays 34 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 6.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Unanimous consent to go past midnight | No | Yeas 4, nays 34 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 10.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Manner of how member voted | No | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amd 23 (Rodrigues) strikes Rule 11B, the 8-year term limit on the Senate President; adopted 32-6 | Yes | Yeas 32, nays 6 |
| February 9, 2023 | Strike remote-participation rules 57C/57D (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 3, nays 35 |
| February 9, 2023 | Remote voting conditions (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 4, nays 34 |
| February 9, 2023 | Senate rules (S17), rules package: question on acceptance of the report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 37, nays 1 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 1.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Filing of Conference Committee Report | No | Yeas 4, nays 35 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 12.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Adding a Minority Report | No | Yeas 3, nays 36 |
| not available | Joint rules (S18), rules package: question on acceptance of the report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| not available | Senate President election (contested meaning) | Voted for Karen E. Spilka | not available |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 2.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Number of bills to be heard | No | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 9.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Minority conference committee report | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 10.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): 48 Hours for conference committee reports | No | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 13.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Timeline for review of conference committee reports | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 22.0 (John F. Keenan): Considering Conference Reports | No | Yeas 9, nays 29 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 26.0 (John F. Keenan): Preventing Unjustified Financial Gain for Members and Their Familes | Yes | Yeas 38, nays 0 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 29.0 (John F. Keenan): Limiting Joint Committee Extensions | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| not available | Joint rules (S15), rules package: question on passing the bill to be engrossed (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| February 13, 2025 | In-person voting conditions (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 5, nays 32 |
| February 13, 2025 | Amendment 36.0 (John F. Keenan): Continuing Beyond Midnight | No | Yeas 6, nays 31 |
| February 13, 2025 | Shorten period in which a matter can be laid on the table (dilatory motions) (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 13, 2025 | Amendment 10.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Going past 10PM | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| February 13, 2025 | Amendment 19.0 (Ryan C. Fattman): Virtual vote designation | No | Yeas 6, nays 31 |
| February 13, 2025 | Legislative days for Rule 24 (dilatory motions) (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| February 13, 2025 | Senate rules (S19), rules package: question on acceptance of the report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| June 26, 2025 | Joint rules (conference report) (S2545), rules package: question on acceptance of conference committee report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 40, nays 0 |
| May 28, 2026 | S.3104 resolutions limiting the Senate's response to the Auditor to the SJC-defined 4 requests; no votes 5 Republicans + Montigny; contested (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 33, nays 6 |
| July 30, 2026 | Press shield amendment to S.3200; adopted 40-0; not about the Legislature's records (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 40, nays 0 |
| July 30, 2026 | Amd 18 (Tarr): apply the public records law to the General Court more fully | No | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| July 30, 2026 | Senate passage of H.5469 34-6; no votes 5 Republicans + Montigny (too weak); contested (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 34, nays 6 |
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
Barry R. Finegold’s committee reported $1.5 million in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2019–2026.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2019 | $163,000 |
| 2020 | $156,000 |
| 2021 | $177,000 |
| 2022 | $341,000 |
| 2023 | $134,000 |
| 2024 | $111,000 |
| 2025 | $205,000 |
| 2026 | $251,000 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals | $1.4M | 93% |
| Political committees and PACs | $96,000 | 6% |
| Unions and associations | $3,850 | under 1% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|---|
| A named employer | 59% |
| Self-employed | 22% |
| Retired | 7% |
| Not employed | 3% |
| Student | under 1% |
| Homemaker or at home | 3% |
| Not reported or withheld | 5% |
Not counted as contributions: $246,000 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).
The same committee also reported $438,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2015, 2016, 2018), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE | committee or PAC | $28,000 | 1 |
| MDR CONSTRUCTION | individuals, by employer | $15,000 | 15 |
| SPRUCE ENVIRONMENTAL TECH | individuals, by employer | $13,000 | 13 |
| NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | individuals, by employer | $9,375 | 17 |
| ANTHROPIC | individuals, by employer | $8,598 | 10 |
| BANK OF NEW ENGLAND | individuals, by employer | $8,000 | 7 |
| FIS | individuals, by employer | $8,000 | 8 |
| PRINCETON PROPERTIES | individuals, by employer | $8,000 | 16 |
| WHITTIER HEALTH NETWORK | individuals, by employer | $8,000 | 8 |
| EASTERN BANK | individuals, by employer | $7,799 | 11 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Finegold Committee (CPF 13045). 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.
- Massachusetts Legislature, members, districts and roll calls
- Budget amendments and enacted budgets, FY2017–FY2026
- CTHRU payroll, Office of the Comptroller (stipends)
- Office of Campaign and Political Finance
- District lines: Acts of 2011 and 2021; Census 2020 block populations
- Official profile (prior offices, occupation)
- Election statistics (first elected, residence)
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.