House · Democrat

Garrett J. Bradley

Former member, served 2015–2016 in the sessions covered here · 3rd Plymouth

Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.

Residence

Hingham

First elected

House 2000

Left office

left office mid-term (July 31, 2016)

Seats held, General Courts 189–194 (the FY2017–FY2026 budgets)
Session	Chamber	District	Lines	Note
189th (2015–16)	House	3rd Plymouth	2011 lines

Posts and stipends

No stipend payments to Garrett J. Bradley are recorded for 2016–2026.

Posts and stipends by session (stipends by calendar year)
Session	Posts	First year	Second year
189th (2015–16)	2nd Assistant Majority Leader	not available	not available

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

3rd Plymouth on its 2011 lines: 4 cities and towns, 41,658 residents (2020).

Hingham 48%, 83% of the town · Hull 24% · Cohasset 20% · Scituate 7%, 16% 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: 33 for all state aid and 41 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)	3rd Plymouth	$464,000	$0	$11.13 · 8th of 160	$11.13 · 8th 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)	3rd Plymouth	$422,000	$10.14 · 12th of 160	$505,000	$12.13 · 11th of 160

Budget amendments

Garrett J. Bradley sponsored six budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $6.8 million in all.

Amendments sponsored

FY2017–FY2026 budgets

Adopted, known outcomes

80%

4 of 5

Chamber rate, same ask sizes

34%

expected at the chamber’s rates

Of the five with a known outcome, four were adopted (80%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about two (34%) would have been.

Largest enacted items matched to an amendment Garrett J. Bradley filed (strong text matches)
Year	Amount	Enacted budget text (excerpt)	Amendment
FY2017	$50,000 (shared two ways)	“a school resource officer for the town of Cohasset public schools”	H4200 #451

Strong matches: 1 enacted item, $50,000 (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). A further two weaker text matches are not listed; attribution is inferred from amendment text and is less certain there. House attribution is inferred throughout, because the House adopts most amendments inside consolidated amendments.

3 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

Garrett J. Bradley filed 67 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; nine were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 13% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against a chamber median of 6% 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	Sent to study	Reported favorably, then died	No action	Enacted rate	Chamber median	Cosponsored
189th (2015–16)	House	67	9	35	19	4	13%	6%	24

Enacted bills as lead sponsor

H1194 (189th): An Act correcting a procedural omission regarding actions against certain decedents under the Uniform Probate Court · Chapter 364 of the Acts of 2016
H3596 (189th): An Act exempting the position of police chief in the town of Hull from the civil service law · Chapter 82 of the Acts of 2015
H3808 (189th): An Act designating a certain traffic island in the town of Hingham as The Frank Massa Memorial Island · Chapter 86 of the Acts of 2016
H3855 (189th): An Act authorizing the town of Hull to issue certain bonds for terms of 30 years. · Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2016
H4051 (189th): An Act making a corrective change for a certain reserve fund in the town of Hingham · Chapter 281 of the Acts of 2016
H4316 (189th): An Act relative to the town administrator in the town of Hingham · Chapter 263 of the Acts of 2016
H541 (189th): An Act further regulating disclosure requirements for expenditures made to support or oppose candidates by certain committees · Chapter 152 of the Acts of 2016
H542 (189th): An Act relative to campaign contribution limits for certain candidates running for office in a state election · Chapter 156 of the Acts of 2016
H543 (189th): An Act relative to disclosure of top contributors for independent expenditures or electioneering communications · Chapter 207 of the Acts of 2016

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

No recorded votes for Garrett J. Bradley on the accountability measures in this file.

The file covers selected roll calls on the Legislature’s own rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay, 2017–2026.

Campaign money in

Garrett J. Bradley’s committee reported $48,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2016.

By year (years in the Legislature)
Year	Contributions
2015	$36,000
2016	$11,000

By kind of contributor
Kind	Total	Share
Individuals	$41,000	86%
Political committees and PACs	$6,450	14%

Individuals’ money by the employer they reported
Employer reported	Share
A named employer	38%
Self-employed	23%
Retired	2%
Homemaker or at home	6%
Not reported or withheld	32%

Not counted as contributions: $5,165 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 organization	Kind	Total	Contributions
NIXON PEABODY	individuals, by employer	$1,500	6
MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMM	committee or PAC	$1,000	2
MASSACHUSETTS BRICK LAYERS PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE	committee or PAC	$1,000	2
RETIRED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PAC	committee or PAC	$1,000	2
ATLANTIC DEVELOPMENT	individuals, by employer	$1,000	2
CITY OF QUINCY	individuals, by employer	$1,000	2
HORIZON BEVERAGE GROUP	individuals, by employer	$1,000	2
LABATON AND SUCHAROW	individuals, by employer	$1,000	1
THORTON AND NAUMES	individuals, by employer	$1,000	1
HORIZON BEVERAGE	individuals, by employer	$1,000	1

Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Bradley Committee (CPF 13228). 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.