---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Pierre Richard Nortelus, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services"
description: "By Ms. Friedman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 23) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Cindy F. Friedman, Marc T. Lombardo and Mindy Domb for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Pierre Richard Nortelus, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 23"
citation: "Massachusetts S 23 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy F. Friedman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1aad909-8ef2-4265-9220-a86768ceb08f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S23"
source_hash: "b896fa8887be2fbf971531736f21c36bcaad8c0e26d9e9bf9d3b03620651491b"
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 S 23 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Pierre Richard Nortelus, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

By Ms. Friedman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 23) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Cindy F. Friedman, Marc T. Lombardo and Mindy Domb for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Pierre Richard Nortelus, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services. 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/S23.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Cindy F. Friedman — primary (person)
- Cindy F. Friedman — cosponsor (person)
- Marc T. Lombardo — cosponsor (person)
- Mindy Domb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Rules suspended
- **2019-02-21** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** House concurred
- **2019-02-25** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-25** Rules suspended
- **2019-02-25** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-02-28** Rules suspended
- **2019-02-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-03-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-03-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-03-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 7 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/f1aad909-8ef2-4265-9220-a86768ceb08f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).