---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Anthony Barton, an employee of the Department of Mental Health"
description: "Senate, August 5, 2019 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Pacheco) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2199"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2315"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2315 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marc R. Pacheco"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-08-05"
last_action: "2019-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/634055ee-bf3b-42bf-ac97-52f7812f380c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2315"
source_hash: "7e10ea487bbbc4e89b6d1d4b735edc00143a97ccf4eebd209fc208dd5f069f06"
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 2315 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Anthony Barton, an employee of the Department of Mental Health

Senate, August 5, 2019 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Pacheco) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2199

## 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/S2315.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Marc R. Pacheco — primary (person)
- Marc R. Pacheco — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-05** Recommended new draft (Pacheco) for S2199
- **2019-08-05** Substituted for S2199
- **2019-08-05** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2019-08-08** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-08-08** Rules suspended
- **2019-08-08** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-08-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-08-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-08-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-08-08** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 58 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/634055ee-bf3b-42bf-ac97-52f7812f380c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).