---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for George Monfreda, an employee of the Department of Mental Health"
description: "By Representative Ferguson of Holden and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 54) of Kimberly N. Ferguson and Harriette L. Chandler for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for George Monfreda, an employee of the Department of Mental Health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 54"
citation: "Massachusetts H 54 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-01-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f484a46c-ee37-443d-b9b6-a681474132f2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H54"
source_hash: "6e0ed75765e5b71a2e644eb15c6af4916692ff8bfabe5092b158373e832ccea7"
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 54 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for George Monfreda, an employee of the Department of Mental Health

By Representative Ferguson of Holden and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 54) of Kimberly N. Ferguson and Harriette L. Chandler for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for George Monfreda, an employee of the Department of Mental Health.

## 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/H54.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Harriette L. Chandler — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14** Referred to the temporary committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Rules suspended
- **2021-01-14** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-14** Read second, amended and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-01-14** Rules suspended
- **2021-01-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-01-21** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-01-21** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-01-21** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-01-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-01-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-01-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 1 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/f484a46c-ee37-443d-b9b6-a681474132f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).