---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Shannon Ondras, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4215). November 27, 2019."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4237"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4237 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-11-27"
last_action: "2020-01-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/362f9c03-124a-4110-b6a1-5fc97437ddca"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4237"
source_hash: "fdacb5c5fc8f224d24d8bc65753fb933c9c887f87483ff206838a3634b24e7a9"
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 4237 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Shannon Ondras, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4215). November 27, 2019.

## 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/H4237.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-27** Substituted for H4215
- **2019-11-27** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2019-12-02** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2020-01-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-01-09** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-01-13** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-01-13** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-01-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-01-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-01-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 8 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/362f9c03-124a-4110-b6a1-5fc97437ddca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).