---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Maria Boverini, an employee of the Essex County Juvenile Court"
description: "By Representative Hill of Ipswich and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bradford Hill and Joan B. Lovely for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Maria Boverini, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4837"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4837 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-06-29"
last_action: "2020-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90b0444f-5dbe-4344-9460-22c94afebd26"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4837"
source_hash: "7c88445b7f3ebd5fb7fe86de0bf2d989315661c8b726a2cb3a438f75e527552c"
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 4837 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Maria Boverini, an employee of the Essex County Juvenile Court

By Representative Hill of Ipswich and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bradford Hill and Joan B. Lovely for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Maria Boverini, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary.

## 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/H4837.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bradford Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-29** Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-02** Senate concurred
- **2020-07-09** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-07-15** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-07-24** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-27** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-08-24** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-08-27** Referred to the committee on House Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-09-03** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2020-09-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-09-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-09-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-09-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-09-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 176 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/90b0444f-5dbe-4344-9460-22c94afebd26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).