---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Paul Geraghty, an employee of the Trial Court of the commonwealth"
description: "By Representative McMurtry of Dedham and Senator Rush, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 905) of Paul McMurtry, Michael F. Rush and John H. Rogers relative to establishing a sick leave bank for Paul Geraghty, an employee of the Norfolk Superior Court department of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 905"
citation: "Massachusetts H 905 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d49ce38-5d15-4c55-910b-75ae5d0320ff"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H905"
source_hash: "3c21b5f21fd65b333a3959f3301c7adcd0be5cee25fa26c460c8065dff36866c"
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 905 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Paul Geraghty, an employee of the Trial Court of the commonwealth

By Representative McMurtry of Dedham and Senator Rush, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 905) of Paul McMurtry, Michael F. Rush and John H. Rogers relative to establishing a sick leave bank for Paul Geraghty, an employee of the Norfolk Superior Court department 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/H905.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Senate concurred
- **2017-03-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-03-09** Rules suspended
- **2017-03-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-16** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-03-20** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-22** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-22** Rules suspended
- **2017-06-22** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-06-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-06-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-06-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-06-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-06-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 29 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/3d49ce38-5d15-4c55-910b-75ae5d0320ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).