---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Linda Thernize-Williams, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance"
description: "By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Walter F. Timilty for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Linda Thernize-Williams, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2251"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2251 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walter F. Timilty"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-10-26"
last_action: "2018-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53329955-c766-4c67-9f2f-8154fb6257a8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2251"
source_hash: "10cdfa29075401c245a4c8c3cd5128ca1cd6cde715fc79a7de583cec7fac8e61"
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 2251 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Linda Thernize-Williams, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance

By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Walter F. Timilty for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Linda Thernize-Williams, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance. 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/S2251.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Walter F. Timilty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-26** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-07** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-07** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** House concurred
- **2018-01-29** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
- **2018-02-14** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Rules suspended
- **2018-02-14** 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`
- **2018-02-15** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-02-20** Rules suspended
- **2018-02-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-15** Rules suspended
- **2018-03-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-03-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 51 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/53329955-c766-4c67-9f2f-8154fb6257a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).