---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Elizabeth C. Cox, an employee of the Department of Public Health"
description: "By Mr. Puppolo of Springfield, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Elizabeth C. Cox, an employee of the Department of Public Health. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3645"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3645 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-03-30"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b43f769b-c9ce-41e7-9c62-e60dad512f9a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3645"
source_hash: "2a6dcf558c8db49613ac6c2e73e3eedfa043fcf636b22e6c5f581cbf71fa2d05"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts H 3645 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Elizabeth C. Cox, an employee of the Department of Public Health

By Mr. Puppolo of Springfield, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Elizabeth C. Cox, an employee of the Department of Public Health. Public Service.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3645.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-03-30** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-13** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-18** Senate concurred
- **2017-04-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-04-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-04-25** Read second, amended and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-04-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-05-01** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-18** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-18** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-05-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-05-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-05-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-05-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-05-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b43f769b-c9ce-41e7-9c62-e60dad512f9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).