Senate · Democrat
Liz Miranda
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Boston
First elected
House 2018; Senate 2022
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | House | 5th Suffolk | 2011 lines | |
| 192nd (2021–22) | House | 5th Suffolk | 2011 lines | |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Senate | Second Suffolk | 2021 lines | moved from the House to the Senate |
| 194th (2025–26) | Senate | Second Suffolk | 2021 lines |
Posts and stipends
Liz Miranda was paid $120,645 in leadership and committee stipends from 2021 to 2026 (2026 to date).
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | No post recorded | $0 | $0 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | Vice chair, House Committee on Human Resources and Employee Engagement | $5,908 | $5,908 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Chair, Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion; Vice chair, Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies | $27,564 | $27,564 |
| 194th (2025–26) | Chair, Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion; Vice Chair, Joint Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities | $30,207 | $23,494 (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
Second Suffolk on its 2021 lines: 1 city or town, 181,874 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: 43 for all state aid and 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | 5th Suffolk | $584,000 | $68,000 | $6.82 · 27th of 160 | $6.03 · 34th of 160 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | 5th Suffolk | $992,000 | $71,000 | $11.60 · 26th of 160 | $10.78 · 26th of 160 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Second Suffolk | $5.9M | $0 | $16.27 · 4th of 40 | $16.27 · 4th of 40 |
| 194th (2025–26) | Second Suffolk | $4.4M | $0 | $24.18 · 5th of 40 | $24.18 · 5th of 40 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | 5th Suffolk | $728,000 | $8.52 · 33rd of 160 | $785,000 | $9.18 · 34th of 160 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | 5th Suffolk | $1.4M | $16.37 · 22nd of 160 | $1.5M | $17.53 · 22nd of 160 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Second Suffolk | $11.1M | $30.39 · 4th of 40 | $12M | $32.90 · 4th of 40 |
| 194th (2025–26) | Second Suffolk | $6.3M | $34.65 · 3rd of 40 | $6.8M | $37.41 · 5th of 40 |
Budget amendments
Liz Miranda sponsored 124 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $51.3 million in all.
Amendments sponsored
124
FY2017–FY2026 budgets
Adopted, known outcomes
61%
68 of 111
Chamber rate, same ask sizes
56%
expected at the chamber’s rates
Of the 111 with a known outcome, 68 were adopted (61%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 62 (56%) would have been.
| Year | Amount | Enacted budget text (excerpt) | Amendment |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | $1M | “support the development and operation of freestanding birth centers to cover costs including, but not limited to, facility costs, start-up…” | S3 #561 |
| FY2026 | $500,000 | “financial assistance to students enrolled in independent, nonprofit vocational technical institutions of higher education in the commonwealth that…” | S3 #632 |
| FY2025 | $500,000 | “Roxbury Community College's for its Center for Economic and Social Justice for workforce and small business development within the clean energy sector” | S4 #15 |
| FY2025 | $500,000 | “financial assistance to students enrolled in independent, nonprofit vocational-technical institutions of higher education in the commonwealth that…” | S4 #634 |
| FY2024 | $500,000 | “financial assistance to students enrolled in independent, nonprofit vocational-technical institutions of higher education in the commonwealth that…” | S3 #706 |
Strong matches: 52 enacted items, $5.8 million (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.
33 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
Liz Miranda filed 158 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; one was enacted on its own. In completed sessions, 0% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against chamber medians of 1% to 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 | No action | Pending (session open) | Enacted rate | Chamber median | Cosponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | House | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 4% | 383 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | House | 26 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 3% | 124 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Senate | 67 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 1% | 147 |
| 194th (2025–26) | Senate | 55 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 2%* | 1% | 126 |
Enacted bills as lead sponsor
- S27 (194th): An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officer for Antonio Pires · Chapter 24 of the Acts of 2026
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
Liz Miranda cast 38 yes-or-no votes on the 74 accountability roll calls in this file (13 yes, 25 no, two for a named candidate); recorded as not voting on 34.
| Date | Measure | Vote | Chamber result |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 1.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Time to review bills | Not voting | Yeas 55, nays 103 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 2.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Time to review amendments | Not voting | Yeas 47, nays 111 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 3.0 (Jonathan Hecht): Committee materials and votes | Not voting | 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) | Not voting | Yeas 9, nays 149 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Access to Information | Not voting | Yeas 40, nays 118 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 12.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Emergency Scheduling of Hearings | Not voting | Yeas 35, nays 123 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 14.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Polls – 2 Hours | Not voting | Yeas 44, nays 114 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 16.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): House Audits | Not voting | Yeas 35, nays 123 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 17.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): HWM Reports on Bills | Not voting | Yeas 33, nays 125 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 19.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Local Aid Resolution | Not voting | Yeas 32, nays 126 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 20.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Review of Consolidated Amendments | Not voting | Yeas 32, nays 125 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 22.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Votes on Website | Not voting | Yeas 44, nays 113 |
| January 30, 2019 | Fingerprint remote voting from committee rooms (contested meaning) | Not voting | Yeas 32, nays 125 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 25.0 (Marc T. Lombardo): Matters considered in an informal session | Not voting | Yeas 32, nays 125 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 31.0 (John H. Rogers): Relative to Rule 18C | Not voting | Yeas 43, nays 113 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 32.0 (Patrick Joseph Kearney): relative to Rule 100 ( c ) 3 | Not voting | Yeas 5, nays 152 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 33.0 (Patrick Joseph Kearney): relative to Rule 20A and Rule 33A | Not voting | Yeas 5, nays 152 |
| January 30, 2019 | Equitable office space (leadership allocates offices) (contested meaning) | Not voting | Yeas 11, nays 146 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 38.0 (Denise Provost): To assure adequate time to prepare and file amendments | Not voting | Yeas 44, nays 113 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 41.0 (Russell E. Holmes): Equal Pay Amendment II | Not voting | Yeas 5, nays 152 |
| January 30, 2019 | House rules (H2019), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning) | Not voting | Yeas 125, nays 32 |
| January 30, 2019 | Conference-committee appointment deadline; adopted 157-0 (contested meaning) | Not voting | Yeas 157, nays 0 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 11.0 (Bradley H. Jones, Jr.): Committee Roll Calls on Website | Not voting | Yeas 47, nays 110 |
| January 30, 2019 | Amendment 12.0 (Marc T. Lombardo): Informal Session | Not voting | Yeas 36, nays 121 |
| January 30, 2019 | Joint rules (H2021), rules package: on adoption of the order (contested meaning) | Not voting | 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 | Yes | 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 |
| not available | Senate President election (contested meaning) | Voted for Karen E. Spilka | not available |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 1.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Successive Legislative Days | Not voting | Yeas 4, nays 34 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 2.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Time of recess for consideration of new matters | Not voting | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 5.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Going past 10 pm | Not voting | Yeas 4, nays 34 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 6.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Unanimous consent to go past midnight | Not voting | Yeas 4, nays 34 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 10.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Manner of how member voted | Not voting | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amd 23 (Rodrigues) strikes Rule 11B, the 8-year term limit on the Senate President; adopted 32-6 | Not voting | Yeas 32, nays 6 |
| February 9, 2023 | Strike remote-participation rules 57C/57D (contested meaning) | Not voting | Yeas 3, nays 35 |
| February 9, 2023 | Remote voting conditions (contested meaning) | Not voting | Yeas 4, nays 34 |
| February 9, 2023 | Senate rules (S17), rules package: question on acceptance of the report (contested meaning) | Not voting | Yeas 37, nays 1 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 1.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Filing of Conference Committee Report | No | Yeas 4, nays 35 |
| February 9, 2023 | Amendment 12.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Adding a Minority Report | No | Yeas 3, nays 36 |
| not available | Joint rules (S18), rules package: question on acceptance of the report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| not available | Senate President election (contested meaning) | Voted for Karen E. Spilka | not available |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 2.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Number of bills to be heard | No | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 9.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Minority conference committee report | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 10.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): 48 Hours for conference committee reports | No | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 13.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Timeline for review of conference committee reports | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 22.0 (John F. Keenan): Considering Conference Reports | Yes | Yeas 9, nays 29 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 26.0 (John F. Keenan): Preventing Unjustified Financial Gain for Members and Their Familes | Yes | Yeas 38, nays 0 |
| February 12, 2025 | Amendment 29.0 (John F. Keenan): Limiting Joint Committee Extensions | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| not available | Joint rules (S15), rules package: question on passing the bill to be engrossed (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| February 13, 2025 | In-person voting conditions (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 5, nays 32 |
| February 13, 2025 | Amendment 36.0 (John F. Keenan): Continuing Beyond Midnight | No | Yeas 6, nays 31 |
| February 13, 2025 | Shorten period in which a matter can be laid on the table (dilatory motions) (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 5, nays 33 |
| February 13, 2025 | Amendment 10.0 (Bruce E. Tarr): Going past 10PM | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| February 13, 2025 | Amendment 19.0 (Ryan C. Fattman): Virtual vote designation | No | Yeas 6, nays 31 |
| February 13, 2025 | Legislative days for Rule 24 (dilatory motions) (contested meaning) | No | Yeas 6, nays 32 |
| February 13, 2025 | Senate rules (S19), rules package: question on acceptance of the report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 39, nays 0 |
| June 26, 2025 | Joint rules (conference report) (S2545), rules package: question on acceptance of conference committee report (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 40, nays 0 |
| May 28, 2026 | S.3104 resolutions limiting the Senate's response to the Auditor to the SJC-defined 4 requests; no votes 5 Republicans + Montigny; contested (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 33, nays 6 |
| July 30, 2026 | Press shield amendment to S.3200; adopted 40-0; not about the Legislature's records (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 40, nays 0 |
| July 30, 2026 | Amd 18 (Tarr): apply the public records law to the General Court more fully | No | Yeas 6, nays 33 |
| July 30, 2026 | Senate passage of H.5469 34-6; no votes 5 Republicans + Montigny (too weak); contested (contested meaning) | Yes | Yeas 34, nays 6 |
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
Liz Miranda’s committee reported $487,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2019–2026.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2019 | $5,350 |
| 2020 | $27,000 |
| 2021 | $42,000 |
| 2022 | $184,000 |
| 2023 | $46,000 |
| 2024 | $68,000 |
| 2025 | $66,000 |
| 2026 | $48,000 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals | $466,000 | 96% |
| Political committees and PACs | $13,000 | 3% |
| Unions and associations | $7,700 | 2% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|---|
| A named employer | 58% |
| Self-employed | 18% |
| Retired | 1% |
| Not employed | 14% |
| Not reported or withheld | 9% |
Not counted as contributions: $52,000 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 $38,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2018), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIT | individuals, by employer | $6,650 | 11 |
| PURE OASIS | individuals, by employer | $5,000 | 7 |
| ALEXS UGLY SAUCE | individuals, by employer | $4,000 | 4 |
| BOSTON TRUST REALTY GROUP | individuals, by employer | $4,000 | 5 |
| TESSI MEDIA | individuals, by employer | $4,000 | 6 |
| BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | individuals, by employer | $3,600 | 10 |
| BPS | individuals, by employer | $3,500 | 5 |
| HYM INVESTMENT GROUP | individuals, by employer | $3,500 | 4 |
| COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS | individuals, by employer | $3,250 | 9 |
| 1199 SEIU MA PAC | committee or PAC | $3,000 | 6 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Miranda Committee (CPF 16987). 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.