Commonwealth Report Legislators Method

House · Democrat

Hannah Bowen

Current member · 6th Essex

Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.

Residence

Beverly

First elected

House 2025 (special)

Prior public offices

Beverly City Councilor At Large (2022-2025)

Occupation

Legislator

Seats held, General Courts 189–194 (the FY2017–FY2026 budgets)
SessionChamberDistrictLinesNote
194th (2025–26)House6th Essex2021 lines

Posts and stipends

No stipend payments to Hannah Bowen are recorded for 2016–2026.

Posts and stipends by session (stipends by calendar year)
SessionPostsFirst yearSecond year
194th (2025–26)No post recorded$0$0 (to date)

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

6th Essex on its 2021 lines: 2 cities and towns, 45,176 residents (2020).

Beverly · Wenham

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: 27 for all state aid and 34 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)
SessionDistrictDollarsIn corrective clausesPer resident per budget, rankWithout corrective clauses, rank
194th (2025–26)6th Essex$129,000$0$2.85 · 140th of 160$2.85 · 138th 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)
SessionDistrictPlaced in the districtPer resident per budget, rankEverything placedPer resident per budget, rank
194th (2025–26)6th Essex$129,000$2.85 · 151st of 160$129,000$2.85 · 153rd of 160

Budget amendments

No budget amendments sponsored by Hannah Bowen are recorded for FY2017–FY2026.

The amendment corpus covers every amendment filed to the House and Senate budgets, FY2017–FY2026. Leadership shapes the budget mostly through base text and conference, which no member is credited with here.

Bills sponsored

Hannah Bowen filed 1 bill as lead sponsor in these sessions; one was enacted on its own. Only the 194th General Court, still in session, is covered, so no enacted rate is given.

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
SessionChamberLead billsEnactedEnacted rateChamber medianCosponsored
194th (2025–26)House11100%*1%44

Enacted bills as lead sponsor

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

Hannah Bowen cast two yes-or-no votes on the two accountability roll calls in this file (two yes, zero no).

Roll calls on rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay
DateMeasureVoteChamber result
June 26, 2025Joint rules (conference report) (S2545), rules package: on acceptance (contested meaning)YesYeas 147, nays 2
June 3, 2026Engross H.5469 (public records law applied to the Legislature). Reform advocates split (contested meaning)YesYeas 125, nays 28

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

Hannah Bowen’s committee reported $40,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2025–2026.

By year (years in the Legislature)
YearContributions
2025$33,000
2026$6,800
By kind of contributor
KindTotalShare
Individuals$36,00089%
Political committees and PACs$2,7507%
Unions and associations$1,6224%
Individuals’ money by the employer they reported
Employer reportedShare
A named employer30%
Self-employed16%
Not employed52%
Not reported or withheld1%

Not counted as contributions: $1,338 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 $6,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2024), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.

Largest employers and organizations
Employer or organizationKindTotalContributions
MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMMcommittee or PAC$1,0002
BOSTON UNIVERSITYindividuals, by employer$1,0001
RSM USindividuals, by employer$1,0001
SUSMAN GODFREYindividuals, by employer$1,0001
GEBRUDER WEISSindividuals, by employer$7553
CORE ONEindividuals, by employer$7502
ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUNDunion or association$5721
NASW MA PACEcommittee or PAC$5001
PAINTERS DISTRICT COUNCIL 35 PACcommittee or PAC$5001
SEIU 509 COPE OCPF 80224committee or PAC$5001

Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Bowen Committee (CPF 17791). 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.