---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Molly Shahvari"
description: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Molly Shahvari"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5345"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5345 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Public Service"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-10-06"
last_action: "2022-12-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29d743e6-e8e7-469d-9bc2-b102534dd546"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5345"
source_hash: "0acb077133fed9ea0936d44e5e4eba2d9f3ba5f95e667b72fecdb67083f79a7f"
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 5345 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Molly Shahvari

## 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/H5345.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)
- Alyson M. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Michael D. Brady — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-10-06** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2022-10-06** New draft of H5327
- **2022-10-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-10-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-10-11** Rules suspended
- **2022-10-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-20** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-24** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-12-01** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-12-01** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-12-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-12-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-12-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 295 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/29d743e6-e8e7-469d-9bc2-b102534dd546`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).