---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Joy Cochran, an employee of the Department of Children and Families"
description: "By Mr. Collins, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 5) of Nick Collins for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Joy Cochran, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. Temporary Senate Rules."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 5"
citation: "Massachusetts S 5 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Collins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-01-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ac3cea0-e4b2-4337-b6af-2285284d9b7a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S5"
source_hash: "10d48e1bf8b590003a9598f8a344ec4b2e84436a62b934d5580f914701b5bf75"
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 5 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Joy Cochran, an employee of the Department of Children and Families

By Mr. Collins, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 5) of Nick Collins for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Joy Cochran, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. Temporary Senate Rules.

## 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/S5.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Nick Collins — primary (person)
- Nick Collins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Referred to the committee on Temporary Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-01-14** Rules suspended
- **2019-01-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-01-14** Rules suspended
- **2019-01-14** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-01-14** Rules suspended
- **2019-01-14** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2019-01-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-01-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-01-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-01-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-01-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 1 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/0ac3cea0-e4b2-4337-b6af-2285284d9b7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).