House · Democrat

Gerard J. Cassidy

Former member, served 2015–2024 in the sessions covered here · 9th Plymouth

Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.

Residence

Brockton

First elected

House 2016 (special)

Prior public offices

Brockton City Council

Occupation

Legislator

Left office

did not seek reelection in 2024 (not a candidate in the 2024 primary or general election for this seat); term ended January 1, 2025

Seats held, General Courts 189–194 (the FY2017–FY2026 budgets)
Session	Chamber	District	Lines
189th (2015–16)	House	9th Plymouth	2011 lines
190th (2017–18)	House	9th Plymouth	2011 lines
191st (2019–20)	House	9th Plymouth	2011 lines
192nd (2021–22)	House	9th Plymouth	2011 lines
193rd (2023–24)	House	9th Plymouth	2021 lines

Posts and stipends

Gerard J. Cassidy was paid $86,286 in leadership and committee stipends from 2019 to 2024.

Posts and stipends by session (stipends by calendar year)
Session	Posts	First year	Second year
189th (2015–16)	No post recorded	not available	$0
190th (2017–18)	No post recorded	$0	$0
191st (2019–20)	Vice chair, Joint Committee on Public Service	$5,633	$5,633
192nd (2021–22)	Vice chair, House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight	$17,043	$17,043
193rd (2023–24)	Chair, Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs	$20,468	$20,468

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

9th Plymouth on its 2021 lines: 4 cities and towns, 45,701 residents (2020).

Brockton 40%, 17% of the town · Easton 36%, 65% of the town · West Bridgewater 17% · East Bridgewater 8%, 24% 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: 50 for all state aid and 42 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)	9th Plymouth	$134,000	$0	$2.89 · 72nd of 160	$2.89 · 72nd of 160
190th (2017–18)	9th Plymouth	$513,000	$0	$5.54 · 42nd of 160	$5.54 · 42nd of 160
191st (2019–20)	9th Plymouth	$324,000	$0	$3.49 · 89th of 160	$3.49 · 87th of 160
192nd (2021–22)	9th Plymouth	$704,000	$11,000	$7.61 · 67th of 160	$7.49 · 67th of 160
193rd (2023–24)	9th Plymouth	$793,000	$0	$8.68 · 62nd of 160	$8.68 · 62nd 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)	9th Plymouth	$199,000	$4.31 · 65th of 160	$199,000	$4.31 · 67th of 160
190th (2017–18)	9th Plymouth	$752,000	$8.12 · 31st of 160	$752,000	$8.12 · 36th of 160
191st (2019–20)	9th Plymouth	$499,000	$5.39 · 66th of 160	$499,000	$5.39 · 71st of 160
192nd (2021–22)	9th Plymouth	$748,000	$8.08 · 82nd of 160	$748,000	$8.08 · 84th of 160
193rd (2023–24)	9th Plymouth	$810,000	$8.87 · 81st of 160	$810,000	$8.87 · 86th of 160

Budget amendments

Gerard J. Cassidy sponsored 78 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $36.4 million in all.

Amendments sponsored

FY2017–FY2026 budgets

Adopted, known outcomes

67%

28 of 42

Chamber rate, same ask sizes

60%

expected at the chamber’s rates

Of the 42 with a known outcome, 28 were adopted (67%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 25 (60%) would have been.

Largest enacted items matched to an amendment Gerard J. Cassidy filed (strong text matches)
Year	Amount	Enacted budget text (excerpt)	Amendment
FY2025	$457,000 (shared two ways)	“the Disabled American Veterans Department of Massachusetts Service Fund, Inc. to combat veterans homelessness by maintaining and operating 3 veterans…”	H4600 #1325
FY2024	$457,000 (shared two ways)	“the Disabled American Veterans Department of Massachusetts Service Fund, Inc. to provide counseling and benefits assistance to disabled veterans and…”	H3900 #1516
FY2024	$150,000	“maintenance and repairs of the little red school house and gazebo in the city of Brockton”	H3900 #1335
FY2022	$150,000	“the construction and maintenance of a memorial statue of Marvin Hagler in the city of Brockton”	H4000 #1013
FY2025	$100,000	“equipment for the Easton fire department”	H4600 #1314

Strong matches: 20 enacted items, $2 million (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). House attribution is inferred throughout, because the House adopts most amendments inside consolidated amendments.

38 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

Gerard J. Cassidy filed 65 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; four were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 6% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against chamber medians of 3% 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	Reported adversely or withdrawn	No action	Enacted rate	Chamber median	Cosponsored
189th (2015–16)	House	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	no bills filed	6%	2
190th (2017–18)	House	15	1	0	12	0	1	1	7%	7%	138
191st (2019–20)	House	15	0	1	11	3	0	0	0%	4%	169
192nd (2021–22)	House	13	1	0	6	5	0	1	8%	3%	103
193rd (2023–24)	House	22	2	0	13	7	0	0	9%	4%	80

Enacted bills as lead sponsor

H1334 (190th): An Act authorizing the Plymouth County retirement board to acquire real property in Plymouth County · Chapter 94 of the Acts of 2017
H4024 (192nd): An Act designating the Department of Unemployment Assistance building in the city of Brockton as the C. Gerald Lucey Building · Chapter 115 of the Acts of 2021
H3779 (193rd): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Lisa Balentine, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance · Chapter 66 of the Acts of 2024
H3824 (193rd): An Act relative to the appointment of a commissioner of health and human services in the City of Brockton · Chapter 52 of the Acts of 2023

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

Gerard J. Cassidy cast 67 yes-or-no votes on the 67 accountability roll calls in this file (12 yes, 55 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	No	Yeas 35, nays 125
January 25, 2017	Amd 3 (Lyons): legislators' raise not effective until next General Court	No	Yeas 40, nays 120
January 25, 2017	Amd 5 (Lyons): cap the increases at 4%	No	Yeas 36, nays 124
January 25, 2017	Engrossment of the pay-raise bill (stipend increases)	Yes	Yeas 116, nays 44
January 26, 2017	Enactment of the pay-raise bill	Yes	Yeas 116, nays 43
February 2, 2017	Override of Gov. Baker's veto of the pay-raise bill	Yes	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)	No	Yeas 34, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Sustain the Chair's ruling (point of order, Mr. Mark) against Diehl amd 2, Speaker term limits	Yes	Yeas 123, nays 33
February 2, 2017	Amendment 3.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): 24 Hour Time Frame for Bills to Be Acted On	No	Yeas 35, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Amendment 4.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Access to Information	No	Yeas 35, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Amendment 9.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Emergency Scheduling of Hearings	No	Yeas 38, nays 121
February 2, 2017	Amendment 10.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Equal Representation on Ethics Committee	No	Yeas 35, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Amendment 15.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Inoculators	No	Yeas 37, nays 122
February 2, 2017	Amendment 16.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Local Aid Resolution	No	Yeas 38, nays 121
February 2, 2017	Amendment 27.0 (James J. Lyons, Jr.): Defining and Limiting Informal Session	No	Yeas 34, nays 124
February 2, 2017	Amendment 20.0 (Shaunna L. O'Connell): Public access to House financial accounts audits	No	Yeas 34, nays 125
February 2, 2017	Amendment 21.0 (Shaunna L. O'Connell): Public access to committee votes	No	Yeas 41, nays 118
February 2, 2017	Amendment 5.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Local Aid Resolution	No	Yeas 37, nays 122
February 2, 2017	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Roll Calls on Website	No	Yeas 38, nays 121
February 2, 2017	Amendment 13.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Reports of Conference Filing Deadline	No	Yeas 37, nays 122
February 2, 2017	Amendment 14.0 (Shaunna L. O'Connell): Public access to committee votes	No	Yeas 38, nays 121
January 30, 2019	Amendment 1.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Time to review bills	No	Yeas 55, nays 103
January 30, 2019	Amendment 2.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Time to review amendments	No	Yeas 47, nays 111
January 30, 2019	Amendment 3.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Committee materials and votes	No	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	No	Yeas 40, nays 118
January 30, 2019	Amendment 12.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Emergency Scheduling of Hearings	No	Yeas 35, nays 123
January 30, 2019	Amendment 14.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls – 2 Hours	No	Yeas 44, nays 114
January 30, 2019	Amendment 16.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): House Audits	No	Yeas 35, nays 123
January 30, 2019	Amendment 17.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): HWM Reports on Bills	No	Yeas 33, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 19.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Local Aid Resolution	No	Yeas 32, nays 126
January 30, 2019	Amendment 20.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Review of Consolidated Amendments	No	Yeas 32, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 22.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Votes on Website	No	Yeas 44, nays 113
January 30, 2019	Fingerprint remote voting from committee rooms (contested meaning)	No	Yeas 32, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 25.0 (Marc T. Lombardo): Matters considered in an informal session	No	Yeas 32, nays 125
January 30, 2019	Amendment 31.0 (John H. Rogers): Relative to Rule 18C	No	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	No	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)	Yes	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	No	Yeas 47, nays 110
January 30, 2019	Amendment 12.0 (Marc T. Lombardo): Informal Session	No	Yeas 36, nays 121
January 30, 2019	Joint rules (H2021), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 157, nays 0
February 24, 2021	Amendment 8.0 (Erika Uyterhoeven): Public Committee Votes and Testimony	No	Yeas 36, nays 122
February 24, 2021	Amendment 3.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Electronic Poll	No	Yeas 38, nays 121
February 24, 2021	Amendment 6.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Procurement Amendment	No	Yeas 34, nays 125
February 24, 2021	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Conference Committee Report	No	Yeas 35, nays 123
February 24, 2021	Joint rules (H68), rules package: on adoption of the Order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 128, nays 31
July 7, 2021	Remote voting for members on military duty; adopted 160-0 (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 160, nays 0
July 7, 2021	Amendment 2.0 (Tami L. Gouveia): Speaker Term Limits	No	Yeas 35, nays 125
July 7, 2021	Amendment 6.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Emergency Scheduling of Hearings	No	Yeas 30, nays 129
July 7, 2021	Amendment 9.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls - 2 Hours	No	Yeas 35, nays 124
July 7, 2021	Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Access to Information	No	Yeas 33, nays 126
July 7, 2021	Amendment 13.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Review of Consolidated Amendments	No	Yeas 32, nays 127
July 7, 2021	Amendment 12.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Votes on Website	No	Yeas 38, nays 121
July 7, 2021	Amendment 16.0 (Erika Uyterhoeven): Public Committee Votes	No	Yeas 41, nays 117
July 7, 2021	Amendment 3.0 (Christopher M. Markey): Review Period for Released Bills	No	Yeas 39, nays 119
July 7, 2021	House rules (H3930), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 129, nays 29
February 1, 2023	Amendment 7.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Time to review technical/ perfecting amendments	No	Yeas 23, nays 130
February 1, 2023	Amendment 12.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Review of Consolidated Amendments	No	Yeas 23, nays 130
February 1, 2023	House rules (H2023), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 153, nays 0
February 1, 2023	Amendment 3.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Local Aid Resolution	No	Yeas 23, nays 130
February 1, 2023	Amendment 9.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Hearing Schedule	No	Yeas 24, nays 129
February 1, 2023	Joint rules (H2025), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning)	Yes	Yeas 153, 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

Gerard J. Cassidy’s committee reported $57,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2023.

By year (years in the Legislature)
Year	Contributions
2015	$5,250
2016	$15,000
2017	$3,750
2018	$5,700
2019	$5,450
2020	$6,950
2021	$7,700
2022	$6,900
2023	$1,000

By kind of contributor
Kind	Total	Share
Political committees and PACs	$29,000	51%
Individuals	$24,000	41%
Unions and associations	$4,798	8%

Individuals’ money by the employer they reported
Employer reported	Share
A named employer	43%
Self-employed	48%
Retired	4%
Homemaker or at home	2%
Not reported or withheld	2%

Not counted as contributions: $5,525 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
MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMM	committee or PAC	$4,000	8
BROCKTON FIRE FIGHTERS PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE	committee or PAC	$3,500	7
RETIRED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PAC	committee or PAC	$2,900	7
PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF MA PEOPLE'S CTTEE	committee or PAC	$2,000	4
RAYNHAM PARK	individuals, by employer	$2,000	2
PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF MA POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	committee or PAC	$2,000	4
COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE	union or association	$1,948	1
MA ASSOC OF REALTORS POL ACTION COMM - MA RPAC	committee or PAC	$1,900	6
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS MA PAC	committee or PAC	$1,500	3
ADMETECH FOUNDATION	individuals, by employer	$1,500	5

Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Cassidy Committee (CPF 16298). 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.