---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Thelma J. Williams, an employee of the Commission for the Blind"
description: "By Representative Meschino of Hull and Senator O'Connor, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Joan Meschino and Patrick M. O'Connor for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Thelma J. Williams, an employee of the Commission for the Blind. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4032"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4032 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-07-23"
last_action: "2019-10-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb91ba0c-7ac3-4f8e-bf0a-679f2fce16aa"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4032"
source_hash: "8bdd6902362419f6a76d57d4fa746a1f0bd8f8cd5569d1f96024c4b8fd6f0e4a"
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 4032 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Thelma J. Williams, an employee of the Commission for the Blind

By Representative Meschino of Hull and Senator O'Connor, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Joan Meschino and Patrick M. O'Connor for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Thelma J. Williams, an employee of the Commission for the Blind. 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/H4032.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joan Meschino — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-23** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-31** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-05** Senate concurred
- **2019-08-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-08-15** Rules suspended
- **2019-08-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-08-22** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-08-26** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-10-03** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-10-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-10-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-10-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-10-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-10-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-10-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 90 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/bb91ba0c-7ac3-4f8e-bf0a-679f2fce16aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).