---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Alyssa Nelson, an employee of the Office for Victim Assistance"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4228). February 14, 2018."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4239"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4239 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6430efb-ff34-48f5-ab3c-634a4172694b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4239"
source_hash: "ac108fa520e2e0bef4b1a59c4c1dd0046b62f3f77497438c46bbed8ee9711800"
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 4239 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Alyssa Nelson, an employee of the Office for Victim Assistance

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4228). February 14, 2018.

## 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/H4239.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-14** Substituted for H4228
- **2018-02-14** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-02-15** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-01** Rules suspended
- **2018-03-01** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 48 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6430efb-ff34-48f5-ab3c-634a4172694b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).