Senate · Republican

Donald F. Humason, Jr.

Former member, served 2015–2020 in the sessions covered here · Second Hampden and Hampshire

Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.

Residence

Westfield

First elected

House 2002; Senate 2013 (special)

Occupation

Legislator

Left office

left to take office: another office (term began January 6, 2020) (January 5, 2020); successor elected in special election May 19, 2020

Seats held, General Courts 189–194 (the FY2017–FY2026 budgets)
Session	Chamber	District	Lines
189th (2015–16)	Senate	Second Hampden and Hampshire	2011 lines
190th (2017–18)	Senate	Second Hampden and Hampshire	2011 lines
191st (2019–20)	Senate	Second Hampden and Hampshire	2011 lines

Posts and stipends

Donald F. Humason, Jr. was paid $123,495 in leadership and committee stipends from 2016 to 2020.

Posts and stipends by session (stipends by calendar year)
Session	Posts	First year	Second year
189th (2015–16)	Minority Whip	not available	$15,000
190th (2017–18)	Assistant Minority Leader	$35,000	$35,000
191st (2019–20)	Assistant Minority Leader (to 2020)	$37,912	$583

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 Hampden and Hampshire on its 2011 lines: 11 cities and towns, 156,291 residents (2020).

Westfield 26% · Holyoke 24% · Agawam 18% · Easthampton 10% · Chicopee 8%, 22% of the town · Southwick 6% · Southampton 4% · Russell 1% · Granville under 1% · Montgomery under 1% · Tolland under 1%

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: 57 for all state aid and 52 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)
Session	District	Dollars	In corrective clauses	Per resident per budget, rank	Without corrective clauses, rank
189th (2015–16)	Second Hampden and Hampshire	$652,000	$0	$4.17 · 12th of 40	$4.17 · 12th of 40
190th (2017–18)	Second Hampden and Hampshire	$1.3M	$0	$4.23 · 18th of 40	$4.23 · 18th of 40
191st (2019–20)	Second Hampden and Hampshire	$1.3M	$0	$4.31 · 19th of 40	$4.31 · 19th 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.

The same district on the other two measures, by session (enacted; includes any corrective-clause money)
Session	District	Placed in the district	Per resident per budget, rank	Everything placed	Per resident per budget, rank
189th (2015–16)	Second Hampden and Hampshire	$627,000	$4.01 · 19th of 40	$727,000	$4.65 · 17th of 40
190th (2017–18)	Second Hampden and Hampshire	$1.4M	$4.45 · 24th of 40	$1.5M	$4.79 · 22nd of 40
191st (2019–20)	Second Hampden and Hampshire	$1.6M	$5.27 · 18th of 40	$1.6M	$5.27 · 21st of 40

Budget amendments

Donald F. Humason, Jr. sponsored 91 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $38.5 million in all.

Amendments sponsored

FY2017–FY2026 budgets

Adopted, known outcomes

41%

37 of 91

Chamber rate, same ask sizes

52%

expected at the chamber’s rates

Of the 91 with a known outcome, 37 were adopted (41%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 47 (52%) would have been.

Largest enacted items matched to an amendment Donald F. Humason, Jr. filed (strong text matches)
Year	Amount	Enacted budget text (excerpt)	Amendment
FY2019	$175,000	“Craig's Doors – A Home Association, Inc. in the town of Amherst”	S4 #804
FY2019	$150,000	“the Empowering Mothers for Positive Outcomes with Early Referral Program at Baystate Medical Center, Inc”	S4 #592
FY2020	$142,000	“maintenance equipment in the town of Southwick”	S3 #135
FY2017	$100,000	“facility construction, upgrades or repairs for public schools in the city known as the town of Agawam”	S4 #107
FY2017	$100,000	“high school students enrolled at Holyoke Community College”	S4 #219

Strong matches: 26 enacted items, $1.5 million (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause).

For 13 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

Donald F. Humason, Jr. filed 128 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; 12 were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 9% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against chamber medians of 3% to 4% 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.

Bills filed as lead sponsor, by session and outcome
Session	Chamber	Lead bills	Enacted	Folded into an enacted bill	Sent to study	Reported favorably, then died	Reported adversely or withdrawn	No action	Enacted rate	Chamber median	Cosponsored
189th (2015–16)	Senate	44	5	0	21	11	0	7	11%	4%	203
190th (2017–18)	Senate	36	5	0	26	4	0	1	14%	3%	235
191st (2019–20)	Senate	48	2	2	34	8	2	0	4%	3%	229

Enacted bills as lead sponsor

S1839 (189th): An Act designating a certain bridge in the city of Westfield as the All Westfield Patriots Bridge · Chapter 257 of the Acts of 2016
S1920 (189th): An Act relative to the authorization of the retirement board of the city of Westfield to grant a superannuation retirement benefit to Lynda Cavanaugh · Chapter 81 of the Acts of 2015
S2189 (189th): An Act authorizing the town of Southwick to continue the employment of police chief David A. Ricardi · Chapter 262 of the Acts of 2016
S2284 (189th): An Act authorizing the city of Easthampton to grant 8 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises · Chapter 122 of the Acts of 2016
S2397 (189th): An Act relative to the selection of school committeepersons in the city known as the Town of Agawam · Chapter 392 of the Acts of 2016
S2014 (190th): An Act relative to veterans' housing in the town of Agawam · Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2018
S2105 (190th): An Act designating a section of state highway route 10 and United States highway route 202 in the town of Southwick as the Purple Heart Trail · Chapter 71 of the Acts of 2018
S2152 (190th): An Act authorizing the city of Easthampton to lease certain real estate · Chapter 83 of the Acts of 2018
S2241 (190th): An Act authorizing the city of Westfield to categorize all certain private ways a public streets · Chapter 211 of the Acts of 2018
S2581 (190th): An Act authorizing the acquisition of easement interests for a pumping station in the city of Easthampton · Chapter 270 of the Acts of 2018
S2197 (191st): An Act allowing the city of Westfield to set the salary of the city clerk as the clerk of the city council through local process · Chapter 16 of the Acts of 2020
S2331 (191st): An Act amending the home rule charter of the city of Easthampton · Chapter 75 of the Acts of 2019

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

Donald F. Humason, Jr. cast 20 yes-or-no votes on the 20 accountability roll calls in this file (18 yes, two no).

Roll calls on rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay
Date	Measure	Vote	Chamber result
January 26, 2017	Senate engrossment of the pay-raise bill	No	Yeas 31, nays 9
February 2, 2017	Amendment 2.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Matters considered in an informal session	Yes	Yeas 38, nays 0
February 2, 2017	Amendment 3.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Time to consider matters in an informal	Yes	Yeas 39, nays 0
February 2, 2017	Amendment 7.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Provided with text of bills prior to poll	Yes	Yeas 39, nays 0
February 2, 2017	Special orders by majority instead of two-thirds (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 6, nays 33
February 2, 2017	Amendment 11.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Unanimous consent	Yes	Yeas 6, nays 33
February 2, 2017	Amendment 13.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Timely Local Aid Notification	Yes	Yeas 7, nays 32
February 2, 2017	Senate override of the veto of the pay-raise bill	No	Yeas 31, nays 9
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

Donald F. Humason, Jr.’s committee reported $100,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2020.

By year (years in the Legislature)
Year	Contributions
2015	$9,725
2016	$33,000
2017	$8,250
2018	$14,000
2019	$26,000
2020	$8,650

By kind of contributor
Kind	Total	Share
Individuals	$79,000	80%
Political committees and PACs	$20,000	20%

Individuals’ money by the employer they reported
Employer reported	Share
A named employer	67%
Self-employed	16%
Retired	11%
Not reported or withheld	6%

Not counted as contributions: $28,000 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 $10,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2021), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.

Largest employers and organizations
Employer or organization	Kind	Total	Contributions
COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTING	individuals, by employer	$9,500	12
MARLBOROUGH REPCC	committee or PAC	$5,290	8
PINSLY RR	individuals, by employer	$3,600	6
SHORTSTOP GRILL	individuals, by employer	$3,500	5
COMM OF MA	individuals, by employer	$2,700	5
WESTFIELD ELECTROPLATING	individuals, by employer	$2,500	5
MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMM	committee or PAC	$2,500	5
REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE	committee or PAC	$2,084	3
HAMPSHIRE TOWING	individuals, by employer	$1,550	4
E MOUNTAIN CC	individuals, by employer	$1,450	3

Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Humason Jr. Committee (CPF 13888). 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.