---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Robert F. Dunphy Jr., an employee of the Executive Office of the Trial Court"
description: "By Mr. Brodeur of Melrose, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul Brodeur for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Robert F. Dunphy, Jr., an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4583"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4583 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul Brodeur"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-31"
last_action: "2018-07-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea812c8f-86ba-40f2-a5a0-7c1f16f5aec9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4583"
source_hash: "9f25ab2519f53e1a3f815c4c0b82da679fbb1ead748a427bdd5ad65fd36f9368"
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 4583 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Robert F. Dunphy Jr., an employee of the Executive Office of the Trial Court

By Mr. Brodeur of Melrose, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul Brodeur for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Robert F. Dunphy, Jr., an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary.

## 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/H4583.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul Brodeur — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-31** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-06** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-07** 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`
- **2018-06-19** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-06-20** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-07-05** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-09** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-09** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-09** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-07-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 136 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/ea812c8f-86ba-40f2-a5a0-7c1f16f5aec9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).