---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Sara Parmenter, an employee of the Department of Corrections"
description: "By Mr. Roy of Franklin, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jeffrey N. Roy, Richard J. Ross and Karen E. Spilka for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Sara Parmenter, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4354"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4354 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey N. Roy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-03-15"
last_action: "2018-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bc4df15-984a-45c2-8596-dbb79153ab5a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4354"
source_hash: "e3e8b3b055ffd31058f5c1783b92cdeeb3dba08ed9cedf2136f74a146ed6f843"
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 4354 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Sara Parmenter, an employee of the Department of Corrections

By Mr. Roy of Franklin, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jeffrey N. Roy, Richard J. Ross and Karen E. Spilka for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Sara Parmenter, an employee of the Department of Correction. 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/H4354.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Jeffrey N. Roy — primary (person)
- Karen E. Spilka — cosponsor (person)
- Richard J. Ross — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-15** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2018-04-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-04-12** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-04-17** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-04-19** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-03** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-03** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-03** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-05-07** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-14** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2018-05-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-05-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-05-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-05-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-05-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 96 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/9bc4df15-984a-45c2-8596-dbb79153ab5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).