Representative Kate Hogan is in her seventh term as State Representative for the Third Middlesex District. Recently named Speaker Pro Tempore, a member of Speaker Mariano’s Leadership team, she works as a bridge between House leadership and members to tackle the state’s biggest issues. In past terms, Representative Hogan served as House Division Leader, House Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Health and a co-chair of the Elder Caucus, where she was instrumental in shepherding landmark public health legislation into law.
Rep. Hogan is proud to represent farms in the Third Middlesex District, many of which are family-owned. Her support for farms in the Commonwealth ranges from sponsoring a bill that reformed the process for valuing and preserving family farms so they could remain intact and in the family to filing legislation to establish a 21st Century Farms Commission, which will investigate the present-day and future needs of agriculture in the Commonwealth with the goal of ensuring our farms can adapt to changing economic, climate and energy conditions.
As part of the legislation that established the Commission, Rep. Hogan called for a simplified grant application for farms overseen by the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture Resources.