---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jodi Cipriano, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services"
description: "By Mr. Roy of Franklin, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jeffrey N. Roy and Richard J. Ross for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Jodi Cipriano, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4554"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4554 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey N. Roy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-24"
last_action: "2018-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0f5f3c0-dbaa-4580-a3a0-c290e9d66106"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4554"
source_hash: "6f28a130ffcf6160a701449285ad7e62215e4ceaf9311c035665f3f2fff44761"
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 4554 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jodi Cipriano, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

By Mr. Roy of Franklin, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jeffrey N. Roy and Richard J. Ross for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Jodi Cipriano, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services. 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/H4554.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-24** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-30** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-31** Senate concurred
- **2018-06-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-06-13** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-06-27** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-27** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-06-28** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-08-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-08-09** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-08-09** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-08-09** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-08-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 231 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/d0f5f3c0-dbaa-4580-a3a0-c290e9d66106`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).