---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Audrey Art, an employee of the department of children and families"
description: "By Mr. Markey of Dartmouth, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Christopher M. Markey for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Audrey Art, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4451"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4451 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher M. Markey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-04-24"
last_action: "2018-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3c530bb-5705-45c4-aa30-bc3b5fcef551"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4451"
source_hash: "d978d0014966c9ca1591443a94106483215d0af2a4ffb42b8277a4d9fa8d753f"
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 4451 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Audrey Art, an employee of the department of children and families

By Mr. Markey of Dartmouth, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Christopher M. Markey for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Audrey Art, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. 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/H4451.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Christopher M. Markey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-24** 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`
- **2018-04-26** Senate concurred
- **2018-04-30** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-05-03** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-03** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-05-03** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-24** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-05-24** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-05-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-05-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-05-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-05-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-06-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 107 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/b3c530bb-5705-45c4-aa30-bc3b5fcef551`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).