---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Ramona Foster, an employee of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education"
description: "SENATE, Thursday, April 27, 2017 - The committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill establishing a sick leave bank for Ramona Foster, an employee of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Senate, No. 2042),-- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2054)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2054"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2054 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-04-27"
last_action: "2017-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5a96a51-e2a1-4feb-a810-29984a53bea3"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2054"
source_hash: "39b7348d1916c33afdd35fbeb78eff5af7428112401a2a3c81bd577d41837cc6"
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 2054 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Ramona Foster, an employee of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

SENATE, Thursday, April 27, 2017 - The committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill establishing a sick leave bank for Ramona Foster, an employee of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Senate, No. 2042),-- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2054).

## 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/S2054.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-04-27** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
- **2017-04-27** Recommended new draft for S2042
- **2017-04-27** Rules suspended
- **2017-04-27** Substituted for S2042
- **2017-04-27** Ordered to a third reading
- **2017-04-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-05-01** Read; and referred to the House committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-08** Reported from the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- **2017-05-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-05-08** Rules suspended
- **2017-05-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-05-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-05-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-05-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-05-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-05-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 13 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/e5a96a51-e2a1-4feb-a810-29984a53bea3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).