House · Republican

Elizabeth A. Poirier

Former member, served 2015–2020 in the sessions covered here · 14th Bristol

Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.

Residence

North Attleborough

First elected

House 1999 (special)

Occupation

Legislator

Left office

did not seek reelection in 2020 (not a candidate in the 2020 primary or general election for this seat); term ended January 6, 2021

Seats held, General Courts 189–194 (the FY2017–FY2026 budgets)
Session	Chamber	District	Lines
189th (2015–16)	House	14th Bristol	2011 lines
190th (2017–18)	House	14th Bristol	2011 lines
191st (2019–20)	House	14th Bristol	2011 lines

Posts and stipends

Elizabeth A. Poirier was paid $160,824 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)	2nd Assistant Minority Leader	not available	$15,000
190th (2017–18)	2nd Assistant Minority Leader	$35,000	$35,000
191st (2019–20)	2nd Assistant Minority Leader	$37,912	$37,912

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

14th Bristol on its 2011 lines: 3 cities and towns, 42,242 residents (2020).

North Attleborough 73% · Mansfield 18%, 32% of the town · Attleboro 9%, 8% of the town

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: 45 for all state aid and 24 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)	14th Bristol	$19,000	$0	$0.45 · 139th of 160	$0.45 · 138th of 160
190th (2017–18)	14th Bristol	$147,000	$1,584	$1.74 · 135th of 160	$1.72 · 135th of 160
191st (2019–20)	14th Bristol	$240,000	$0	$2.84 · 106th of 160	$2.84 · 105th 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)
Session	District	Placed in the district	Per resident per budget, rank	Everything placed	Per resident per budget, rank
189th (2015–16)	14th Bristol	$19,000	$0.45 · 145th of 160	$19,000	$0.45 · 146th of 160
190th (2017–18)	14th Bristol	$147,000	$1.74 · 148th of 160	$147,000	$1.74 · 149th of 160
191st (2019–20)	14th Bristol	$240,000	$2.84 · 121st of 160	$240,000	$2.84 · 124th of 160

Budget amendments

Elizabeth A. Poirier sponsored 21 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $51.3 million in all.

Amendments sponsored

FY2017–FY2026 budgets

Adopted, known outcomes

69%

9 of 13

Chamber rate, same ask sizes

60%

expected at the chamber’s rates

Of the 13 with a known outcome, nine were adopted (69%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about eight (60%) would have been.

Largest enacted items matched to an amendment Elizabeth A. Poirier filed (strong text matches)
Year	Amount	Enacted budget text (excerpt)	Amendment
FY2021	$500,000	“the Children's Advocacy Center of Bristol County, Inc”	H5150 #100
FY2018	$200,000 (shared two ways)	“the Children's Advocacy Center of Bristol County, Inc”	H3600 #376
FY2020	$50,000	“the conversion of the Allen Avenue School in North Attleboro into a center for the North Attleboro Council on Aging”	H3800 #771
FY2021	$25,000	“a food storage and distribution center at the Allen Avenue School in North Attleboro to serve the senior population of the North Attleboro Council on…”	H5150 #102
FY2017	$25,000 (shared four ways)	“the Children's Advocacy Center of Worcester County”	H4200 #1004

Strong matches: 5 enacted items, $800,000 (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). House attribution is inferred throughout, because the House adopts most amendments inside consolidated amendments.

13 outcomes are inferred by matching amendment text to the House’s consolidated amendments, because the House records most amendments only as “Consolidated A–G.” 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

Elizabeth A. Poirier filed 173 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; four were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 2% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against chamber medians of 4% to 7% 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	No action	Enacted rate	Chamber median	Cosponsored
189th (2015–16)	House	54	1	0	42	9	2	2%	6%	271
190th (2017–18)	House	59	3	0	42	14	0	5%	7%	211
191st (2019–20)	House	60	0	1	46	12	1	0%	4%	398

Enacted bills as lead sponsor

H3853 (189th): An Act relative to the form of representative town government in the town of North Attleborough · Chapter 120 of the Acts of 2016
H1110 (190th): An Act establishing regional commissions on the status of women and girls · Chapter 45 of the Acts of 2018
H4299 (190th): An Act repealing a certain act increasing the expenditure limit on revolving funds in the city of Attleboro · Chapter 127 of the Acts of 2018
H5013 (190th): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for William Brown, an employee of the Massachusetts of Department of Transportation · Chapter 400 of the Acts of 2018

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

Elizabeth A. Poirier cast 46 yes-or-no votes on the 46 accountability roll calls in this file (36 yes, ten no).

Roll calls on rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay
Date	Measure	Vote	Chamber result
January 25, 2017	Recommit the 2017 pay-raise bill (H.58) to Ways and Means	Yes	Yeas 35, nays 125
January 25, 2017	Amd 3 (Lyons): legislators' raise not effective until next General Court	Yes	Yeas 40, nays 120
January 25, 2017	Amd 5 (Lyons): cap the increases at 4%	Yes	Yeas 36, nays 124
January 25, 2017	Engrossment of the pay-raise bill (stipend increases)	No	Yeas 116, nays 44
January 26, 2017	Enactment of the pay-raise bill	No	Yeas 116, nays 43
February 2, 2017	Override of Gov. Baker's veto of the pay-raise bill	No	Yeas 116, nays 43
February 2, 2017	Amendment 1.0 (Geoff Diehl): Text of the proposed House amendment (Representative Diehl) to the House Bill relative to Rank and File (House, No. 2017)	Yes	Yeas 34, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Sustain the Chair's ruling (point of order, Mr. Mark) against Diehl amd 2, Speaker term limits	No	Yeas 123, nays 33
February 2, 2017	Amendment 3.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): 24 Hour Time Frame for Bills to Be Acted On	Yes	Yeas 35, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Amendment 4.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Access to Information	Yes	Yeas 35, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Amendment 9.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Emergency Scheduling of Hearings	Yes	Yeas 38, nays 121
February 2, 2017	Amendment 10.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Equal Representation on Ethics Committee	Yes	Yeas 35, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Amendment 15.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Inoculators	Yes	Yeas 37, nays 122
February 2, 2017	Amendment 16.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Local Aid Resolution	Yes	Yeas 38, nays 121
February 2, 2017	Amendment 27.0 (James J. Lyons, Jr.): Defining and Limiting Informal Session	Yes	Yeas 34, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Amendment 20.0 (Shaunna L. O'Connell): Public access to House financial accounts audits	Yes	Yeas 34, nays 125
February 2, 2017	Amendment 21.0 (Shaunna L. O'Connell): Public access to committee votes	Yes	Yeas 41, nays 118
February 2, 2017	Amendment 5.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Local Aid Resolution	Yes	Yeas 37, nays 122
February 2, 2017	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Roll Calls on Website	Yes	Yeas 38, nays 121
February 2, 2017	Amendment 13.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Reports of Conference Filing Deadline	Yes	Yeas 37, nays 122
February 2, 2017	Amendment 14.0 (Shaunna L. O'Connell): Public access to committee votes	Yes	Yeas 38, nays 121
January 30, 2019	Amendment 1.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Time to review bills	Yes	Yeas 55, nays 103
January 30, 2019	Amendment 2.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Time to review amendments	Yes	Yeas 47, nays 111
January 30, 2019	Amendment 3.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Committee materials and votes	Yes	Yeas 49, nays 109
January 30, 2019	Collective bargaining for House employees (curb on leadership control of staff); not a disclosure/power-of-leadership rule in the narrow sense (contested meaning)	No	Yeas 9, nays 149
January 30, 2019	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Access to Information	Yes	Yeas 40, nays 118
January 30, 2019	Amendment 12.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Emergency Scheduling of Hearings	Yes	Yeas 35, nays 123
January 30, 2019	Amendment 14.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls – 2 Hours	Yes	Yeas 44, nays 114
January 30, 2019	Amendment 16.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): House Audits	Yes	Yeas 35, nays 123
January 30, 2019	Amendment 17.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): HWM Reports on Bills	Yes	Yeas 33, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 19.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Local Aid Resolution	Yes	Yeas 32, nays 126
January 30, 2019	Amendment 20.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Review of Consolidated Amendments	Yes	Yeas 32, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 22.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Votes on Website	Yes	Yeas 44, nays 113
January 30, 2019	Fingerprint remote voting from committee rooms (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 32, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 25.0 (Marc T. Lombardo): Matters considered in an informal session	Yes	Yeas 32, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 31.0 (John H. Rogers): Relative to Rule 18C	Yes	Yeas 43, nays 113
January 30, 2019	Amendment 32.0 (Patrick Joseph Kearney): relative to Rule 100 ( c ) 3	No	Yeas 5, nays 152
January 30, 2019	Amendment 33.0 (Patrick Joseph Kearney): relative to Rule 20A and Rule 33A	No	Yeas 5, nays 152
January 30, 2019	Equitable office space (leadership allocates offices) (contested meaning)	No	Yeas 11, nays 146
January 30, 2019	Amendment 38.0 (Denise Provost): To assure adequate time to prepare and file amendments	Yes	Yeas 44, nays 113
January 30, 2019	Amendment 41.0 (Russell E. Holmes): Equal Pay Amendment II	No	Yeas 5, nays 152
January 30, 2019	House rules (H2019), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	No	Yeas 125, nays 32
January 30, 2019	Conference-committee appointment deadline; adopted 157-0 (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 157, nays 0
January 30, 2019	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Roll Calls on Website	Yes	Yeas 47, nays 110
January 30, 2019	Amendment 12.0 (Marc T. Lombardo): Informal Session	Yes	Yeas 36, nays 121
January 30, 2019	Joint rules (H2021), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 157, 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

Elizabeth A. Poirier’s committee reported $15,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2020.

By year (years in the Legislature)
Year	Contributions
2015	$3,050
2016	$5,500
2017	$2,400
2018	$2,750
2019	$800
2020	$500

By kind of contributor
Kind	Total	Share
Individuals	$12,000	79%
Political committees and PACs	$1,650	11%
Unions and associations	$1,550	10%

Individuals’ money by the employer they reported
Employer reported	Share
A named employer	42%
Self-employed	32%
Not reported or withheld	25%

Not counted as contributions: $550 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 $0 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
V H BLACKINTON	individuals, by employer	$2,000	2
M S	individuals, by employer	$750	3
MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMM	committee or PAC	$750	2
DISTRICT COUNCIL MASS & NORTHERN N E LABORERS PAC	union or association	$500	1
BORO SAND GRAVEL	individuals, by employer	$500	1
PAC 80479	individuals, by employer	$500	1
MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMM	union or association	$500	1
MA CORRECTION OFFICERS FEDERATED UNION PAC M C O F U PAC	committee or PAC	$400	1
RETIRED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES	union or association	$300	1
PRIME LAMINATING	individuals, by employer	$250	1

Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Poirier Committee (CPF 13455). 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.