---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Robert Hackett, an employee of the Department of Revenue"
description: "By Representative Campanale of Leicester and Senator Moore, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 55) of Kate D. Campanale and Michael O. Moore for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Robert E. Hackett, an employee of the Department of Revenue. Temporary Ways and Means."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 55"
citation: "Massachusetts H 55 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-02-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61ceabd2-e38e-445c-9280-503af218732f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H55"
source_hash: "b226bbc029679ec2d79c46f04f33c62a34a1c249f38b8cd4efe1a85493a790db"
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 55 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Robert Hackett, an employee of the Department of Revenue

By Representative Campanale of Leicester and Senator Moore, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 55) of Kate D. Campanale and Michael O. Moore for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Robert E. Hackett, an employee of the Department of Revenue. Temporary Ways and Means.

## 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/H55.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kate D. Campanale — cosponsor (person)
- Michael O. Moore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Referred to the temporary committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Bill reported favorably by the temporary committee on House Ways and Means
- **2017-01-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-01-25** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-01-26** Read and referred to the temporary committee on Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-06** Rules suspended
- **2017-02-06** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-02-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-02-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-02-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-02-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61ceabd2-e38e-445c-9280-503af218732f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).