---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Gail Weinberg-Kraus, an employee of the Trial Court of the commonwealth"
description: "By Ms. Spilka, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2044) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Karen E. Spilka and Jeffrey N. Roy for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Gail Weinberg-Kraus, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2044"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2044 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen E. Spilka"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-03-06"
last_action: "2017-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73fcff26-d21d-472b-a65b-b6042dd29fcf"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2044"
source_hash: "9be837dd0a134da2e5584e32bed8168bcf4c19ef15ea45db482965d3939ba696"
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 S 2044 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Gail Weinberg-Kraus, an employee of the Trial Court of the commonwealth

By Ms. Spilka, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2044) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Karen E. Spilka and Jeffrey N. Roy for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Gail Weinberg-Kraus, 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/S2044.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Karen E. Spilka — primary (person)
- Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-06** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Rules suspended
- **2017-03-16** Referred to the committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** House concurred
- **2017-06-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **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 change) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-06-23** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-07-05** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-05** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-07-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-07-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-07-13** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-07-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-07-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-07-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 49 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/73fcff26-d21d-472b-a65b-b6042dd29fcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).