---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Patrick Laughlin, an employee of the Department of Transportation"
description: "By Representative Blais of Sunderland and Senator Hinds, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Natalie M. Blais and Adam G. Hinds for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Patrick Laughlin, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4341"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4341 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-12-27"
last_action: "2022-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f99c0a9d-8104-443b-a39b-6e948900f83d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4341"
source_hash: "cd70cb738e60f7bc9a31d30690acfc812c921b88e99808368dc9b044eb039bf7"
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 4341 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Patrick Laughlin, an employee of the Department of Transportation

By Representative Blais of Sunderland and Senator Hinds, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Natalie M. Blais and Adam G. Hinds for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Patrick Laughlin, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. 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/192/H4341.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Adam G. Hinds — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-27** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Senate concurred
- **2022-02-07** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-02-09** Rules suspended
- **2022-02-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-07-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-07-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-07-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-07-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-07-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-07-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 112 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f99c0a9d-8104-443b-a39b-6e948900f83d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).