---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Pamela Lopez, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services"
description: "By Mr. Ross, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Richard J. Ross and Shawn Dooley for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Pamela Lopez, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2550"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2550 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard J. Ross"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-31"
last_action: "2018-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7f66796-76ce-446c-8ace-f2863b7fd811"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2550"
source_hash: "b9b8b3281658eec8ce7390501a5168feb3f518e1b93482cfcdc789280875fe91"
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 2550 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Pamela Lopez, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

By Mr. Ross, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Richard J. Ross and Shawn Dooley for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Pamela Lopez, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services. 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/S2550.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Richard J. Ross — primary (person)
- Shawn Dooley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-31** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-07** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-07** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-11** House concurred
- **2018-06-25** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-25** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-09-10** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-09-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-13** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-09-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-09-13** Rules suspended
- **2018-09-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-09-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-09-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-09-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-09-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-10-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 262 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/f7f66796-76ce-446c-8ace-f2863b7fd811`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).