---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Essie Page, employee of the Massachusetts Parole Board"
description: "By Mr. Collins of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Nick Collins for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Essie Page, an employee of the Parole Board. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4245"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4245 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Collins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1056ded-7337-49a7-ba41-43d32ec6abb5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4245"
source_hash: "3bccc57cd083748125c18ec77953534054ed20cad1cd9ade7e160ddb179a1f30"
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 4245 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Essie Page, employee of the Massachusetts Parole Board

By Mr. Collins of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Nick Collins for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Essie Page, an employee of the Parole Board. 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/H4245.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Nick Collins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-14** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Senate concurred
- **2018-02-26** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-03-01** Rules suspended
- **2018-03-01** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-22** Rules suspended
- **2018-03-22** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 61 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/d1056ded-7337-49a7-ba41-43d32ec6abb5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).