---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Edward Gates, an employee of the Department of Environmental Protection"
description: "By Mr. Vega of Holyoke, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Aaron Vega for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Edward Gates, an employee of the Department of Environmental Protection. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3796"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3796 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Vega"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-06-29"
last_action: "2017-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9552f45c-ea7b-448d-af74-a3a8e18f48e2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3796"
source_hash: "f783023d9713f3855e7b8daa9e01503f9de5c6c02977f77420633c6dc4c55854"
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 3796 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Edward Gates, an employee of the Department of Environmental Protection

By Mr. Vega of Holyoke, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Aaron Vega for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Edward Gates, an employee of the Department of Environmental Protection. 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/H3796.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Aaron Vega — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-29** Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-05** Senate concurred
- **2017-07-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-07-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-07-12** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-07-17** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-03** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-08-03** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-03** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-08-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-08-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-08-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-08-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-08-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 73 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/9552f45c-ea7b-448d-af74-a3a8e18f48e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).