---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Dawn Ball, an employee of the Department of Transportation"
description: "By Representative Jones of North Reading and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Bruce E. Tarr for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Dawn Ball, an employee of the Department of Transportation. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4091"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4091 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-09-23"
last_action: "2019-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/feadbeae-f218-4dd6-8e04-b251c14b9c95"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4091"
source_hash: "4b921ce9693578c908a3c17e9537f14cb4c37131c10e933ca3cb9e85e2a2c03c"
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 4091 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Dawn Ball, an employee of the Department of Transportation

By Representative Jones of North Reading and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Bruce E. Tarr for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Dawn Ball, an employee of the Department of Transportation. 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/H4091.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-23** Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-26** Senate concurred
- **2019-10-02** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-02** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-02** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed), rules suspended and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-10-07** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading and passed to be engrossed. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-10-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-10-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-10-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-10-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-10-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 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/feadbeae-f218-4dd6-8e04-b251c14b9c95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).