Senate · Republican
Dean A. Tran
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Fitchburg
First elected
Senate 2017 (special)
Occupation
Legislator
Left office
defeated in the 2020 general election; term ended January 6, 2021
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190th (2017–18) | Senate | Worcester and Middlesex | 2011 lines | |
| 191st (2019–20) | Senate | Worcester and Middlesex | 2011 lines |
Posts and stipends
Dean A. Tran was paid $77,127 in leadership and committee stipends from 2018 to 2020.
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 190th (2017–18) | Ranking minority member, Joint Committee on Health Care Financing | $0 | $14,885 |
| 191st (2019–20) | Assistant Minority Whip | $37,912 | $24,331 |
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
Worcester and Middlesex on its 2011 lines: 11 cities and towns, 169,214 residents (2020).
Leominster · Fitchburg · Gardner · Lunenburg · Townsend · Lancaster · Westminster · Sterling · Clinton · Bolton · Berlin
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: 55 for all state aid and 54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190th (2017–18) | Worcester and Middlesex | $797,000 | $0 | $2.36 · 36th of 40 | $2.36 · 36th of 40 |
| 191st (2019–20) | Worcester and Middlesex | $1.5M | $0 | $4.46 · 18th of 40 | $4.46 · 18th 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190th (2017–18) | Worcester and Middlesex | $1.6M | $4.64 · 23rd of 40 | $1.6M | $4.79 · 21st of 40 |
| 191st (2019–20) | Worcester and Middlesex | $3.4M | $9.94 · 8th of 40 | $3.5M | $10.38 · 8th of 40 |
Budget amendments
Dean A. Tran sponsored 89 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $42 million in all.
Amendments sponsored
89
FY2017–FY2026 budgets
Adopted, known outcomes
33%
29 of 89
Chamber rate, same ask sizes
49%
expected at the chamber’s rates
Of the 89 with a known outcome, 29 were adopted (33%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 44 (49%) would have been.
| Year | Amount | Enacted budget text (excerpt) | Amendment |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2019 | $103,000 | “the renovation of the Fitchburg YMCA” | S4 #89 |
| FY2020 | $100,000 | “the development of the IdeaLab business entrepreneurship center” | S3 #221 |
| FY2020 | $100,000 | “expand science, technology, engineering and mathematics resources and program offerings to support careers in engineering and manufacturing by…” | S3 #221 |
| FY2020 | $100,000 | “the North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation for the development of a regional economic development blueprint for north central…” | S3 #737 |
| FY2019 | $100,000 | “expand STEM resources and program offerings to support careers in engineering and manufacturing by offering industry standard supports for CAD/COMSOL…” | S4 #195 |
Strong matches: 20 enacted items, $1 million (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). A further one weaker text match is not listed; attribution is inferred from amendment text and is less certain there.
For 18 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
Dean A. Tran filed 52 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; five were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 10% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against a chamber median of 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 | History not available | Enacted rate | Chamber median | Cosponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190th (2017–18) | Senate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no bills filed | 3% | 8 |
| 191st (2019–20) | Senate | 52 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10% | 3% | 207 |
Enacted bills as lead sponsor
- S2218 (191st): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Ryan Russell, an employee of the Department of Correction · Chapter 51 of the Acts of 2019
- S2322 (191st): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Amanda Franczek, an employee of the Department of Children and Families · Chapter 89 of the Acts of 2019
- S2356 (191st): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Wilfredo Bosque-Rosa, an employee of the Department of Correction · Chapter 115 of the Acts of 2019
- S2693 (191st): An Act authorizing the city of Fitchburg to change the use of a certain parcel of land acquired for park purposes · Chapter 122 of the Acts of 2020
- S2754 (191st): An Act revising the town charter of Lunenburg · Chapter 167 of the Acts of 2020
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
Dean A. Tran cast 12 yes-or-no votes on the 12 accountability roll calls in this file (12 yes, zero no).
| 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 | Yes | 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 | Yes | Yeas 8, nays 31 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 17.0 (Ryan C. Fattman): Matters considered in an informal session | Yes | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| January 31, 2019 | Amendment 25.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Unanimous consent | Yes | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| not available | Senate rules (S8), rules package: question on acceptance of the report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
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
Dean A. Tran’s committee reported $218,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2017–2020.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2017 | $33,000 |
| 2018 | $114,000 |
| 2019 | $23,000 |
| 2020 | $47,000 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals | $131,000 | 60% |
| Political committees and PACs | $85,000 | 39% |
| Unions and associations | $1,350 | 1% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|---|
| A named employer | 61% |
| Self-employed | 23% |
| Retired | 11% |
| Homemaker or at home | 4% |
| Not reported or withheld | 1% |
Not counted as contributions: $8,010 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 $41,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2015, 2016, 2021, 2022), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE | committee or PAC | $61,000 | 3 |
| MARLBOROUGH REPCC | committee or PAC | $11,000 | 15 |
| AIS | individuals, by employer | $7,500 | 9 |
| SUTTON REPTC | committee or PAC | $5,933 | 6 |
| A1 AUTO PARTS | individuals, by employer | $5,000 | 6 |
| SWORD AND SPOON FOUNDATION | individuals, by employer | $3,250 | 4 |
| COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL | individuals, by employer | $3,000 | 4 |
| TIM S FABRICATION | individuals, by employer | $2,500 | 5 |
| WACHUSETT MOUNTAIN SKI AREA | individuals, by employer | $2,200 | 4 |
| GERARD HEALTH FOUNDATION | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 2 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Tran Committee (CPF 16311). 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)
- Leaving office (election statistics)
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.