---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jessica Zamansky, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance"
description: "By Mr. Keenan, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2603) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John F. Keenan and David F. DeCoste for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Jessica Zamansky, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2603"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2603 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John F. Keenan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-03-12"
last_action: "2020-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b73f69b-1717-4a0c-b6a1-8baa8086e84a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2603"
source_hash: "5c12f4640b5331d5d1866a38a6654bf9f3042cd1fc74b5b5a0e8597699e49d4d"
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 2603 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jessica Zamansky, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance

By Mr. Keenan, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2603) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John F. Keenan and David F. DeCoste for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Jessica Zamansky, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance. 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/S2603.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John F. Keenan — primary (person)
- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
- John F. Keenan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-12** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-17** Rules suspended
- **2020-03-17** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-18** House concurred
- **2020-03-26** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-26** Rules suspended
- **2020-03-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-04-23** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-04-23** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-04-23** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2020-04-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-04-27** Rules suspended
- **2020-04-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-13** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-05-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-05-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-05-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 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/9b73f69b-1717-4a0c-b6a1-8baa8086e84a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).