---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Donna Paul, an employee of the Department of Correction"
description: "By Mr. Ross, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2166) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Richard J. Ross and Elizabeth A. Poirier for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Donna Paul, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2166"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2166 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard J. Ross"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-08-24"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63d28318-941a-4d2a-92d5-61849c0c48d0"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2166"
source_hash: "9749b5e83ae3f4f3883a57681874d5d6fb068e833e19f3df95a71261bf51feae"
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 2166 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Donna Paul, an employee of the Department of Correction

By Mr. Ross, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2166) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Richard J. Ross and Elizabeth A. Poirier for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Donna Paul, an employee of the Department of Correction. 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/S2166.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Richard J. Ross — primary (person)
- Elizabeth A. Poirier — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-08-24** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-31** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-31** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-21** House concurred
- **2017-10-02** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-10-26** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-10-26** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-26** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read a third time and passed to be engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-10-27** Read; and refrred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- **2017-11-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-11-20** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-09-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-09-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-09-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-09-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-09-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 254 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63d28318-941a-4d2a-92d5-61849c0c48d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).