---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Brittany S. Ketcham, an employee of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security"
description: "By Representative Vargas of Haverhill and Senator DiZoglio, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Andres X. Vargas and Diana DiZoglio for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Brittany S. Ketcham, an employee of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5376"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5376 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-10-27"
last_action: "2022-12-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0d9bd69-7dde-4639-b678-2206d0c25008"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5376"
source_hash: "828aaa09db5c6a6ba50833b2a9fd4cecab4926fadf85e08c60b33538a1b6ce58"
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 5376 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Brittany S. Ketcham, an employee of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security

By Representative Vargas of Haverhill and Senator DiZoglio, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Andres X. Vargas and Diana DiZoglio for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Brittany S. Ketcham, an employee of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. 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/H5376.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Andres X. Vargas — cosponsor (person)
- Diana DiZoglio — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-10-27** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-10-31** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2022-11-03** Senate concurred
- **2022-11-07** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-11-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-11-10** Rules suspended
- **2022-11-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-11-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-11-21** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-12-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-12-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-12-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-12-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-12-19** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 310 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/f0d9bd69-7dde-4639-b678-2206d0c25008`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).