---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Charlotte Charest, an employee of the Middlesex Probate and Family Court"
description: "By Mr. O'Connor, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2787) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Patrick M. O'Connor, James B. Eldridge and Marc R. Pacheco for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Charlotte Charest, an employee of the Middlesex Probate and Family Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2787"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2787 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick M. O'Connor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-06-22"
last_action: "2020-08-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8703a852-adbb-4bc0-a8fb-aa8db6ee94f2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2787"
source_hash: "08c8fd60ed1307db5aff595dca232422a1d71fec2ca8af49c92f9bc7ca5fa35f"
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 2787 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Charlotte Charest, an employee of the Middlesex Probate and Family Court

By Mr. O'Connor, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2787) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Patrick M. O'Connor, James B. Eldridge and Marc R. Pacheco for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Charlotte Charest, an employee of the Middlesex Probate and Family 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/S2787.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Patrick M. O'Connor — primary (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Marc R. Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-22** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-22** Rules suspended
- **2020-06-22** Referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-25** House concurred
- **2020-07-06** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-07-06** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-07-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-07-30** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-08-03** Rules suspended
- **2020-08-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-08-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-08-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-08-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-08-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-08-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-08-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 158 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/8703a852-adbb-4bc0-a8fb-aa8db6ee94f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).