---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Stephen Melchin, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth"
description: "By Mr. Driscoll of Milton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 100) of William J. Driscoll, Jr., for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Stephen Melchin, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 100"
citation: "Massachusetts H 100 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William J. Driscoll, Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81cde964-8dac-45cd-a0bb-6ce0ecc05f98"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H100"
source_hash: "1737400c3befa92eda0b49c5b52d64548204ae549b5a34a16495d2215f57ee74"
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 H 100 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Stephen Melchin, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth

By Mr. Driscoll of Milton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 100) of William J. Driscoll, Jr., for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Stephen Melchin, an employee of the Trial 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/192/H100.pdf)

## Sponsors

- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-01** Referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Senate concurred
- **2021-04-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2021-04-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-04-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-04-29** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-03** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-06-03** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-06-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-06-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-06-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-06-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81cde964-8dac-45cd-a0bb-6ce0ecc05f98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).