---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Renee Bennett, an employee of the Sex Offender Registry Board"
description: "By Mr. Day of Stoneham, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Michael S. Day for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Renee Bennett, an employee of the Sex Offender Registry Board. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3797"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3797 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael S. Day"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-05-13"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44cea3e0-1c43-4388-87dc-b1274d5e1106"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3797"
source_hash: "d5ba2e565be5b38df12d2aec9efb7042b367832d1fdd60cd6f5255a119930ada"
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 H 3797 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Renee Bennett, an employee of the Sex Offender Registry Board

By Mr. Day of Stoneham, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Michael S. Day for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Renee Bennett, an employee of the Sex Offender Registry Board. 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/191/H3797.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Michael S. Day — primary (person)
- Michael S. Day — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-13** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-20** Senate concurred
- **2019-05-30** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended
- **2019-06-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-06-10** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-06-13** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-06-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-06-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-06-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-06-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-06-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 22 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44cea3e0-1c43-4388-87dc-b1274d5e1106`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).