---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Elizabeth O'Brien, an employee of the Department of the Attorney General"
description: "By Mr. Brownsberger, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2176) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of William N. Brownsberger for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Elizabeth O'Brien, an employee of the department of the Attorney General. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2176"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2176 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William N. Brownsberger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-10-02"
last_action: "2018-02-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46aadaf0-5aa6-4c82-94a3-e6a0bd68ad4c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2176"
source_hash: "f277662d793b7d29de8f4b5efd8bb98da592f79966672cf26e31c487b781cd4b"
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 2176 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Elizabeth O'Brien, an employee of the Department of the Attorney General

By Mr. Brownsberger, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2176) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of William N. Brownsberger for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Elizabeth O'Brien, an employee of the department of the Attorney General. 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/S2176.pdf)

## Sponsors

- William N. Brownsberger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-02** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-04** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-04** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-05** House concurred
- **2017-10-19** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-21** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-21** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-21** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-12-26** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-01-16** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-01-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-01-25** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-01-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-01-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-02-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 16 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/46aadaf0-5aa6-4c82-94a3-e6a0bd68ad4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).