---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Michelle Dancy, an employee of the Department of Mental Health"
description: "By Ms. Lovely, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. ) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Joan B. Lovely for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Michelle Dancy, an employee of the Department of Mental Health. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2116"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2116 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joan B. Lovely"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-07-05"
last_action: "2017-08-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7d675ca-46df-43c2-b631-1bcdcc575abf"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2116"
source_hash: "4f00f5320f721cb73a22fdd64352deaf643c491a455e896bdfcbae0ede85eaa1"
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 2116 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Michelle Dancy, an employee of the Department of Mental Health

By Ms. Lovely, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. ) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Joan B. Lovely for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Michelle Dancy, an employee of the Department of Mental Health. Public Service.

## 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/S2116.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joan B. Lovely — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-05** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-07** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-07** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-12** House concurred
- **2017-07-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-07-31** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-31** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-08-03** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-08-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-08-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-08-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-08-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-08-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-08-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-08-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 67 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/f7d675ca-46df-43c2-b631-1bcdcc575abf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).