---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Amy Burlingame, an employee of the Department of Children and Families"
description: "By Mr. Donahue of Worcester, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Daniel M. Donahue and Michael O. Moore for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Amy Burlingame, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4896"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4896 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel M. Donahue"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-08-13"
last_action: "2018-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c7d313b-b9fc-4fe8-8cd5-673f881a89e4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4896"
source_hash: "050cd85c4c6a2cccc6f50f0980347ac85fa7b305fadcdb7824887b791945fa23"
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 4896 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Amy Burlingame, an employee of the Department of Children and Families

By Mr. Donahue of Worcester, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Daniel M. Donahue and Michael O. Moore for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Amy Burlingame, 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/H4896.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Daniel M. Donahue — primary (person)
- Michael O. Moore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-08-13** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-16** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-20** Senate concurred
- **2018-08-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-08-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-08-27** Rules suspended
- **2018-08-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-09-06** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-10** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-09-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-09-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-09-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-09-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-09-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-10-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 265 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/1c7d313b-b9fc-4fe8-8cd5-673f881a89e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).