---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Patricia Foley, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation"
description: "By Representative Rogers of Norwood and Senator Rush, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John H. Rogers, Michael F. Rush and Paul McMurtry for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Patricia Foley, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4151"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4151 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-10-21"
last_action: "2019-11-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/920b7586-1d83-443a-a7eb-cdf0651a83b6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4151"
source_hash: "857d3727fd37cf5e5518ef01e15a695c76329b89b1e196372f81564a9be059e3"
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 4151 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Patricia Foley, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation

By Representative Rogers of Norwood and Senator Rush, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John H. Rogers, Michael F. Rush and Paul McMurtry for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Patricia Foley, an employee of the Massachusetts 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/H4151.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-21** 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`
- **2019-10-24** Senate concurred
- **2019-10-30** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-31** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-31** Read second, ordered to the third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-11-04** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-11-07** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-11-07** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-11-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-11-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-11-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-11-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-11-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 116 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/920b7586-1d83-443a-a7eb-cdf0651a83b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).