House · Democrat
Kristin E. Kassner
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Hamilton
First elected
House 2022
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 193rd (2023–24) | House | 2nd Essex | 2021 lines | |
| 194th (2025–26) | House | 2nd Essex | 2021 lines |
Posts and stipends
No stipend payments to Kristin E. Kassner are recorded for 2016–2026.
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 193rd (2023–24) | No post recorded | $0 | $0 |
| 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
2nd Essex on its 2021 lines: 6 cities and towns, 46,064 residents (2020).
Ipswich · Georgetown · Hamilton · Newbury · Rowley · Topsfield
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: 36 for all state aid and 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 193rd (2023–24) | 2nd Essex | $442,000 | $0 | $4.80 · 130th of 160 | $4.80 · 126th of 160 |
| 194th (2025–26) | 2nd Essex | $292,000 | $0 | $6.34 · 88th of 160 | $6.34 · 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 193rd (2023–24) | 2nd Essex | $442,000 | $4.80 · 137th of 160 | $442,000 | $4.80 · 141st of 160 |
| 194th (2025–26) | 2nd Essex | $292,000 | $6.34 · 105th of 160 | $292,000 | $6.34 · 111th of 160 |
Budget amendments
Kristin E. Kassner sponsored 24 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $21.9 million in all.
Amendments sponsored
24
FY2017–FY2026 budgets
Adopted, known outcomes
85%
17 of 20
Chamber rate, same ask sizes
63%
expected at the chamber’s rates
Of the 20 with a known outcome, 17 were adopted (85%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 13 (63%) would have been.
| Year | Amount | Enacted budget text (excerpt) | Amendment |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | $88,000 (shared two ways) | “marsh restoration and revitalization including, but not limited to: (i) a green crab trapping program for applied research and product development…” | H4000 #164 |
| FY2026 | $40,000 | “the town of Hamilton for an ambulance” | H4000 #146 |
| FY2026 | $20,000 | “the town of Rowley for a stormwater runoff collection and abatement system at the town landing to address significant erosion into the Rowley river…” | H4000 #142 |
| FY2026 | $20,000 | “the town of Georgetown for the replacement of equipment in the Georgetown fire department” | H4000 #144 |
| FY2026 | $20,000 | “the town of Newbury for a new cardiac monitor and repairs at the Morgan avenue fire station” | H4000 #145 |
Strong matches: 16 enacted items, $408,000 (the member’s share where several amendments claim one clause). A further one weaker text match is 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.
20 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
Kristin E. Kassner filed 37 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; three were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 7% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against a chamber median of 4% 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 | Pending (session open) | Enacted rate | Chamber median | Cosponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 193rd (2023–24) | House | 15 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 7% | 4% | 156 |
| 194th (2025–26) | House | 22 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 9%* | 1% | 172 |
Enacted bills as lead sponsor
- H4742 (193rd): An Act amending the appointment and election restrictions on finance committee and capital planning members in the town of Newbury · Chapter 255 of the Acts of 2024
- H3156 (194th): An Act to increase the income limit for Clause 41A, Senior Tax Deferral Program in Ipswich · Chapter 37 of the Acts of 2025
- H4243 (194th): An Act to amend the town charter of Ipswich · Chapter 71 of the Acts of 2025
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
Kristin E. Kassner cast 14 yes-or-no votes on the 14 accountability roll calls in this file (four yes, ten no).
| Date | Measure | Vote | Chamber result |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 2.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Roll Calls | No | Yeas 23, nays 128 |
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 3.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Formal Session Notification | No | Yeas 23, nays 128 |
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 4.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): General Court Audits | No | Yeas 23, nays 128 |
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 5.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Opinion of the Justices | No | Yeas 23, nays 128 |
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 6.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls | No | Yeas 23, nays 128 |
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 7.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Poll Notification | No | Yeas 23, nays 128 |
| February 25, 2025 | Joint rules (H2026), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 128, nays 23 |
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 18.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Time to Review Legislation | No | Yeas 23, nays 128 |
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 17.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Audit by State Auditor | No | Yeas 24, nays 127 |
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 2.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls | No | Yeas 23, nays 128 |
| February 25, 2025 | Amendment 3.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Poll Notifications | No | Yeas 23, nays 128 |
| February 25, 2025 | House rules (H2024), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 128, nays 23 |
| June 26, 2025 | Joint rules (conference report) (S2545), rules package: on acceptance (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 147, nays 2 |
| June 3, 2026 | Engross H.5469 (public records law applied to the Legislature). Reform advocates split (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 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
Kristin E. Kassner’s committee reported $78,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2023–2026.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2023 | $5,250 |
| 2024 | $46,000 |
| 2025 | $9,300 |
| 2026 | $17,000 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals | $47,000 | 60% |
| Political committees and PACs | $27,000 | 35% |
| Unions and associations | $4,257 | 5% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|---|
| A named employer | 41% |
| Self-employed | 26% |
| Retired | 2% |
| Not employed | 30% |
| Not reported or withheld | 2% |
The same committee also reported $23,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2021, 2022), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE | committee or PAC | $14,000 | 3 |
| COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS | individuals, by employer | $5,000 | 8 |
| KLT ASSOCIATES | individuals, by employer | $4,000 | 4 |
| MA & NORTHERN NE LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL POL ACTION COMM | committee or PAC | $2,000 | 4 |
| RIEMER BRAUNSTEIN | individuals, by employer | $1,500 | 4 |
| INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 103 POL ACTION COMM | committee or PAC | $1,000 | 2 |
| SEIU 509 COPE PAC | union or association | $1,000 | 2 |
| LBC BOSTON | individuals, by employer | $1,000 | 1 |
| IPSWICH DEMTC | committee or PAC | $1,000 | 2 |
| GATHR | individuals, by employer | $1,000 | 1 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Kassner Committee (CPF 17935). 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)
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.