---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Bethany Ryan, an employee of the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Department"
description: "By Mr. Scibak of South Hadley, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John W. Scibak for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Bethany Ryan, an employee of the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Department. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4403"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4403 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John W. Scibak"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68fe9baa-069c-47a5-b43b-060dd60cedc2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4403"
source_hash: "d2333ccd3d0bab3799ee5c2f2fe5b6bfdb838764c5e7f59f803c7a3713392440"
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 4403 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Bethany Ryan, an employee of the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Department

By Mr. Scibak of South Hadley, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John W. Scibak for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Bethany Ryan, an employee of the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Department. 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/H4403.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John W. Scibak — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-28** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-05** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Senate concurred
- **2018-04-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-04-17** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-05-14** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-08-16** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-08-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-08-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-08-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-08-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 232 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/68fe9baa-069c-47a5-b43b-060dd60cedc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).