---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Molly Urquhart an employee of the Department of Children and Families"
description: "By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of William M. Straus for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Molly Urquhart, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5230"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5230 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Straus"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-08-15"
last_action: "2022-11-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/236cd559-7930-47c9-89e7-8e2c36cd41b4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5230"
source_hash: "981f953271fe7ca5e996452b486269d011d9f7c40122cf0dd2c32e6e47103c30"
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 5230 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Molly Urquhart an employee of the Department of Children and Families

By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of William M. Straus for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Molly Urquhart, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. 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/H5230.pdf)

## Sponsors

- William M. Straus — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-08-15** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-18** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-22** Senate concurred
- **2022-08-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-08-29** Rules suspended
- **2022-08-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-09-01** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-09-06** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-10-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-10-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-10-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-01** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 250 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/236cd559-7930-47c9-89e7-8e2c36cd41b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).