---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Debra Messier, an employee of the department of revenue"
description: "By Representative Wagner of Chicopee and Senator Welch, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Joseph F. Wagner and James T. Welch for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Debra Messier, an employee of the Department of Revenue. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3849"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3849 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-05-28"
last_action: "2019-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f465545f-8fd6-4054-9e87-d738a49a0c7d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3849"
source_hash: "069b76b0bd1a23edc6fe957ea9a74fe41d58036b48065c9220245137a5ebbb6b"
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 3849 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Debra Messier, an employee of the department of revenue

By Representative Wagner of Chicopee and Senator Welch, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Joseph F. Wagner and James T. Welch for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Debra Messier, an employee of the Department of Revenue. 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/H3849.pdf)

## Sponsors

- James T. Welch — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph F. Wagner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-28** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-29** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-03** Senate concurred
- **2019-06-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-06-10** Rules suspended
- **2019-06-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-06-17** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-07-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-07-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-07-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-07-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-07-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-08-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 56 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/f465545f-8fd6-4054-9e87-d738a49a0c7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).