House · Democrat
Jeffrey Sánchez
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Boston
First elected
House 2002
Occupation
Legislator
Left office
did not seek reelection in 2018 (not a candidate in the 2018 primary or general election for this seat); term ended January 2, 2019
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | House | 15th Suffolk | 2011 lines | |
| 190th (2017–18) | House | 15th Suffolk | 2011 lines |
Posts and stipends
Jeffrey Sánchez was paid $126,154 in leadership and committee stipends from 2016 to 2018.
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | Chair, Joint Committee on Health Care Financing | not available | $15,000 |
| 190th (2017–18) | W&M Chair (from Jul 2017) | $46,154 | $65,000 |
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
15th Suffolk on its 2011 lines: 2 cities and towns, 43,248 residents (2020).
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: 40 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.
| Session | District | Dollars | In corrective clauses | Per resident per budget, rank | Without corrective clauses, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | 15th Suffolk | $76,000 | $13,000 | $1.77 · 109th of 160 | $1.46 · 117th of 160 |
| 190th (2017–18) | 15th Suffolk | $834,000 | $8,944 | $9.65 · 8th of 160 | $9.54 · 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.
| Session | District | Placed in the district | Per resident per budget, rank | Everything placed | Per resident per budget, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | 15th Suffolk | $124,000 | $2.86 · 92nd of 160 | $124,000 | $2.86 · 93rd of 160 |
| 190th (2017–18) | 15th Suffolk | $1.5M | $16.86 · 8th of 160 | $1.5M | $16.93 · 9th of 160 |
Budget amendments
Jeffrey Sánchez sponsored eight budget amendments of their own in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $5.7 million in all.
Amendments sponsored
8
FY2017–FY2026 budgets
Adopted, known outcomes
67%
4 of 6
Chamber rate, same ask sizes
58%
expected at the chamber’s rates
Of the six with a known outcome, four were adopted (67%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about three (58%) would have been.
Filed as Ways and Means chair; leadership corrective amendments: one amendment, with $2.1 million in enacted items matched to them (190th General Court). This is leadership’s money moved through the chair’s amendments; it is not counted in the member’s own amendments or items. Items that name places in the district are included in the district money below.
| Year | Amount | Enacted budget text (excerpt) | Amendment |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | $150,000 | “the operation of the Behavioral Health and Outpatient Substance Abuse Services to provide counseling and treatment for individuals suffering from…” | H4200 #139 |
| FY2018 | $125,000 | “a grant to the Hyde Square Task Force” | H3600 #690 |
| FY2018 | $125,000 | “a grant to the Union of Minority Neighborhoods” | H3600 #703 |
| FY2017 | $125,000 | “a grant to the Union of Minority Neighborhoods, Inc” | H4200 #127 |
Strong matches: 4 enacted items, $525,000 (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). House attribution is inferred throughout, because the House adopts most amendments inside consolidated amendments.
5 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
Jeffrey Sánchez filed 44 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; four were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 9% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against chamber medians of 6% 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.
| 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 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 6% | 6% | 40 |
| 190th (2017–18) | House | 26 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 12% | 7% | 39 |
Enacted bills as lead sponsor
- H4588 (189th): An Act designating a certain bridge in the city of Boston as the Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo and Brian Arredondo memorial bridge · Chapter 461 of the Acts of 2016
- H4486 (190th): An Act protecting youth from the health risks of tobacco and nicotine addiction · Chapter 157 of the Acts of 2018
- H4732 (190th): An Act relative to economic development in the commonwealth · Chapter 228 of the Acts of 2018
- H4742 (190th): An Act for prevention and access to appropriate care and treatment of addiction · Chapter 208 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
Jeffrey Sánchez cast 18 yes-or-no votes on the 18 accountability roll calls in this file (one yes, 17 no).
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
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
Jeffrey Sánchez’s committee reported $293,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2018.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $30,000 |
| 2016 | $24,000 |
| 2017 | $66,000 |
| 2018 | $172,000 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals | $250,000 | 86% |
| Political committees and PACs | $31,000 | 10% |
| Unions and associations | $12,000 | 4% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|---|
| A named employer | 60% |
| Self-employed | 20% |
| Retired | 5% |
| Not employed | 3% |
| Homemaker or at home | 6% |
| Not reported or withheld | 7% |
Not counted as contributions: $11,000 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 $1,125 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2019, 2020), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS | individuals, by employer | $7,950 | 18 |
| STAR REALTY GROUP | individuals, by employer | $3,500 | 4 |
| SUFFOLK CONSTRUCTION | individuals, by employer | $3,000 | 3 |
| REGIONAL HOME CARE | individuals, by employer | $2,500 | 6 |
| GUARDIAN HEALTHCARE | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 2 |
| GLOBAL PARTNERS | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 2 |
| WINGATE HEALTHCARE | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 2 |
| AMCV CONSULTING | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 3 |
| HORIZON BEVERAGE | individuals, by employer | $2,000 | 4 |
| BOSTON CARMEN'S UNION LOCAL 589 | union or association | $2,000 | 1 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Sanchez Committee (CPF 13954). 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.
- Massachusetts Legislature, members, districts and roll calls
- Budget amendments and enacted budgets, FY2017–FY2026
- CTHRU payroll, Office of the Comptroller (stipends)
- Office of Campaign and Political Finance
- District lines: Acts of 2011 and 2021; Census 2020 block populations
- Official profile (prior offices, occupation)
- Election statistics (first elected, residence)
- Leaving office (election statistics)
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.