---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Norma Jean Silva, an employee of the trial court of the Commonwealth"
description: "By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Marc R. Pacheco and Susan Williams Gifford for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Norma Jean Silva, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2572"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2572 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marc R. Pacheco"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-06-04"
last_action: "2018-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a47e5ec-1f25-4e55-b56b-8267cd79b862"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2572"
source_hash: "98cc30a8a9a6eb905e119e3747e3631c8f3bf6663f770b67b312f29de794ffa9"
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 2572 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Norma Jean Silva, an employee of the trial court of the Commonwealth

By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Marc R. Pacheco and Susan Williams Gifford for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Norma Jean Silva, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary.

## 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/S2572.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Marc R. Pacheco — primary (person)
- Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-04** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-08** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-08** Referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** 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`
- **2018-07-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-07-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-09** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-10** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-10** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-07-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 140 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/5a47e5ec-1f25-4e55-b56b-8267cd79b862`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).