House · Democrat
Peter Capano
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Lynn
First elected
House 2018
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
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | House | 11th Essex | 2011 lines | |
| 192nd (2021–22) | House | 11th Essex | 2011 lines | |
| 193rd (2023–24) | House | 11th Essex | 2021 lines |
Posts and stipends
Peter Capano was paid $26,007 in leadership and committee stipends from 2021 to 2024.
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | No post recorded | $0 | $0 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | Vice chair, Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs | $5,908 | $5,908 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | Vice chair, Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs | $7,096 | $7,096 |
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
11th Essex on its 2021 lines: 2 cities and towns, 46,082 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: 70 for all state aid and 48 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) | 11th Essex | $977,000 | $0 | $11.27 · 6th of 160 | $11.27 · 6th of 160 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | 11th Essex | $1.7M | $0 | $19.23 · 8th of 160 | $19.23 · 6th of 160 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | 11th Essex | $1.6M | $0 | $17.38 · 23rd of 160 | $17.38 · 23rd 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | 11th Essex | $574,000 | $6.62 · 53rd of 160 | $1.1M | $12.31 · 18th of 160 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | 11th Essex | $1.7M | $19.72 · 15th of 160 | $2.2M | $25.41 · 13th of 160 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | 11th Essex | $1.6M | $17.38 · 35th of 160 | $2.1M | $22.84 · 29th of 160 |
Budget amendments
Peter Capano sponsored 37 budget amendments in FY2017–FY2026, asking for $2.8 million in all.
Amendments sponsored
37
FY2017–FY2026 budgets
Adopted, known outcomes
47%
15 of 32
Chamber rate, same ask sizes
65%
expected at the chamber’s rates
Of the 32 with a known outcome, 15 were adopted (47%). At the chamber’s adoption rate for amendments of the same size, about 21 (65%) would have been.
| Year | Amount | Enacted budget text (excerpt) | Amendment |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | $175,000 | “Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute, Inc. direct service and provider training programs” | H4600 #743 |
| FY2024 | $100,000 | “the e-team machinist program in Lynn” | H3900 #309 |
| FY2025 | $50,000 | “the E-Team Machinist Training Program in the city of Lynn” | H4600 #640 |
| FY2025 | $50,000 | “a public works utility vehicle for the maintenance of the Nahant Greenlawn cemetery and public park land in Nahant” | H4600 #644 |
| FY2023 | $50,000 | “repairs to the town of Nahant's council on aging facilities” | H4700 #188 |
Strong matches: 6 enacted items, $450,000 (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.
29 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
Peter Capano filed 55 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; three were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 5% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against chamber medians of 3% 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 | Sent to study | Reported favorably, then died | No action | Enacted rate | Chamber median | Cosponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191st (2019–20) | House | 19 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 16% | 4% | 322 |
| 192nd (2021–22) | House | 17 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0% | 3% | 334 |
| 193rd (2023–24) | House | 19 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0% | 4% | 149 |
Enacted bills as lead sponsor
- H3739 (191st): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Sophia R. Velez, an employee of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services · Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2019
- H4315 (191st): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Susan Edwards, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services · Chapter 37 of the Acts of 2020
- H4362 (191st): An Act authorizing the city of Lynn to use certain park land in said city for combined sewer overflow control purposes · Chapter 123 of the Acts of 2020
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
Peter Capano cast 21 yes-or-no votes on the 46 accountability roll calls in this file (five yes, 16 no); recorded as not voting on 25.
| 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 | 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
Peter Capano’s committee reported $29,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2019–2023.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2019 | $13,000 |
| 2020 | $2,000 |
| 2021 | $4,530 |
| 2022 | $6,850 |
| 2023 | $2,500 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Unions and associations | $21,000 | 74% |
| Individuals | $4,995 | 17% |
| Political committees and PACs | $2,600 | 9% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|---|
| A named employer | 40% |
| Self-employed | 55% |
| Not reported or withheld | 5% |
Not counted as contributions: $4,934 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 $41,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2015, 2017, 2018), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| CWA -COPE PCC | union or association | $2,000 | 1 |
| MA & NO NEW ENGLAND LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL---- CPF ID80479 | union or association | $2,000 | 4 |
| COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA | union or association | $2,000 | 1 |
| CARPENTERS LOCAL 339 CPF 80991 | union or association | $1,500 | 4 |
| SEIU 1199 80769 | union or association | $1,500 | 3 |
| 617 MEDIA | individuals, by employer | $1,000 | 1 |
| IRONWORKERS LOCAL 7 CPF80219 | union or association | $1,000 | 2 |
| MASS BRICKLAYERS PEOPLES COMMITTEE 80323 | union or association | $1,000 | 2 |
| PAINTERS DISTRICT COUNCIL GENERAL CHECKING 2 | union or association | $1,000 | 1 |
| SPRINKLER FITTERS LOCAL 550 | union or association | $1,000 | 2 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Capano Committee (CPF 15977). 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.