---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Amanda Caruso, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections"
description: "By Representative Ferguson of Holden and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kimberly N. Ferguson and Harriette L. Chandler for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Amanda Caruso, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4657"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4657 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-04-02"
last_action: "2020-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a13c858-12f2-437c-8c56-7c4ae18c4d1f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4657"
source_hash: "013c8323836dd55d942669938fb40b936aac740abef080f00a4e0731a7186fec"
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 4657 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Amanda Caruso, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections

By Representative Ferguson of Holden and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kimberly N. Ferguson and Harriette L. Chandler for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Amanda Caruso, an employee of the Department of Correction. 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/H4657.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Harriette L. Chandler — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-04-02** 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`
- **2020-04-16** Senate concurred
- **2020-04-21** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-04-23** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-04-23** Rules suspended
- **2020-04-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-04** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-05-11** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-09-08** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-09-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-09-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-09-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-09-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-09-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-09-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 178 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/5a13c858-12f2-437c-8c56-7c4ae18c4d1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).