---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Valencia Hadley, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance"
description: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Valencia Hadley, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 70"
citation: "Massachusetts H 70 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Temporary House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-03-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90b75578-1c96-4548-ac9e-a60868113e3f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H70"
source_hash: "24d7c833900780acbd848e6ec26f375532b8bd28844b73a52c515453997f6e16"
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 70 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Valencia Hadley, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance

## 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/H70.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Temporary House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** Reported from the temporary committee on House Ways and Means
- **2017-02-01** New draft of H67
- **2017-02-01** Bill reported favorably
- **2017-02-01** Rules suspended
- **2017-02-01** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-02-02** Read and referred to the temporary committee on Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-16** Rules suspended
- **2017-02-16** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-02-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-02-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-02-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-03-01** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 4 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/90b75578-1c96-4548-ac9e-a60868113e3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).