Who lobbies on Beacon Hill.
How Massachusetts registers lobbyists and what they must disclose. The state's searchable lobbying records have not yet been opened, so this page has no counts or client amounts.
Client amounts: not yet checked.
No amounts are shown because no filing could be opened. Under the Secretary's guidance, lobbyists report compensation received from clients, and clients report operating expenses that include amounts paid to lobbyists. These are different measures and would not be added together.
Sources: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Lobbyist Public Search (not opened); Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Lobbyist Division; Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Lobbying FAQs; Massachusetts Lobbyist Division, Lobbyist Registration and Reporting Obligations (seminar document, reviewed November 2020); Secretary of the Commonwealth, Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report.
How to read this
Massachusetts registrations run by calendar year and disclosure reports are filed twice a year. The filing rules here come from the Secretary's FAQ page and a seminar document reviewed in November 2020; what each report contains comes from that 2020 document. We did not confirm that those contents are unchanged. Registering as or hiring a lobbyist is lawful and public, and nothing here shows that any official acted because of it.
What is not here yet
- Not yet checked: the number of lobbyists registered for 2026. The Lobbyist Public Search was not opened: a plain request from the workspace got only a bot-check loading page, and the permission request to read it through WebFetch was not answered in time.
- Not yet checked: the number of clients registered for 2026, for the same reason.
- Not yet checked: every client's reported operating expenses and every lobbyist's reported compensation, including the top clients by either measure.
- Not yet checked: the January-June 2026 disclosure reports (due July 15, 2026) and the 2025 reports.
- Not yet checked: whether any registration has ended during 2026.
- Not yet checked: any Secretary of the Commonwealth annual report after Fiscal Year 2024. A search of the Secretary's site did not turn one up.
- The FY2024 annual report's sentence on transactions breaks off after the word 'totaling', so whatever total it was giving is not shown here.
- The FY2024 annual report gives no count of lobbyists, clients or disclosure reports.
- What each report contains comes from a document reviewed in November 2020; we did not confirm it is unchanged.
- Every source here was read through WebFetch and none was saved, so no raw copy exists (see raw/PULLS.md). WebFetch returns a machine summary. On Nov. 9, 2026 an independent re-read matched the transaction and fee figures, the deadlines and the three filing fees to the pages as quoted; the pages themselves should still be saved when the site allows it.
Gaps in the lobbying records as of the date checked.