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An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Sally Desrosiers, an employee of the Department of Correction

Filed by Dennis C. Gallagher · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

Became Chapter 49 of the Acts of 2026.

H4962 · Bill · docket HD5431

16 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-12-15	House	Referred to the committee on House Rules
2026-01-12	House	Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service
2026-01-15	Senate	Senate concurred
2026-01-22	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2026-01-23	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2026-01-23	House	Rules suspended
2026-01-23	House	Read second and ordered to a third reading
2026-03-02	House	Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed
2026-03-05	Senate	Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading
2026-03-16	Senate	Taken out of the Orders of the Day
2026-03-16	Senate	Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed
2026-03-18	House	Emergency preamble adopted
2026-03-18	Senate	Emergency preamble adopted
2026-03-19	House	Enacted
2026-03-19	Senate	Enacted and laid before the Governor
2026-03-26	Executive	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 49 of the Acts of 2026

1 amendments filed

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	Walsh - Floor Amendment	Thomas P. Walsh	Adopted

Committee actions

Action	Committee
Suspend Rules	Rules (H)
Favorable	Public Service (J)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly Drawn	Bills in the Third Reading (H)
Correctly Drawn	Bills in the Third Reading (S)

Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.