Senate · Democrat
Thomas P. Kennedy
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Brockton
First elected
House 1983 (special); Senate 2008
Left office
died (June 28, 2015); successor elected in special election November 3, 2015
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | Senate | Second Plymouth and Bristol | 2011 lines |
Posts and stipends
No stipend payments to Thomas P. Kennedy are recorded for 2016–2026.
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | No post recorded | not available | not available |
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 Plymouth and Bristol on its 2011 lines: 8 cities and towns, 175,987 residents (2020).
Brockton · Whitman · Hanover · East Bridgewater · Hanson · Easton · Halifax · Plympton
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: 62 for all state aid and 45 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) | Second Plymouth and Bristol | $563,000 | $0 | $3.20 · 22nd of 40 | $3.20 · 22nd 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | Second Plymouth and Bristol | $713,000 | $4.05 · 17th of 40 | $713,000 | $4.05 · 19th of 40 |
Budget amendments
No budget amendments sponsored by Thomas P. Kennedy 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
Thomas P. Kennedy filed 50 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; one was enacted on its own. In completed sessions, 2% 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 | Sent to study | Reported favorably, then died | No action | Enacted rate | Chamber median | Cosponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | Senate | 50 | 1 | 36 | 11 | 2 | 2% | 4% | 84 |
Enacted bills as lead sponsor
- S42 (189th): An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Marlo Carter, an employee of the Department of Correction · Chapter 21 of the Acts of 2015
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
No recorded votes for Thomas P. Kennedy on the accountability measures in this file.
The file covers selected roll calls on the Legislature’s own rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay, 2017–2026.
Campaign money in
Thomas P. Kennedy’s committee reported $1,000 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2015.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $1,000 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals | $500 | 50% |
| Political committees and PACs | $500 | 50% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 100% |
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS AND NORTH NEW ENGLAND LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL | committee or PAC | $500 | 1 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Kennedy Committee (CPF 10238). 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 (press/secondary: Wikipedia)
- 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.