---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Alecia Simmons, an employee of the Office of the Comptroller"
description: "By Ms. Chang-Diaz, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2654) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Sonia Chang-Diaz and Russell E. Holmes for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Alecia Simmons, an employee of the Office of the Comptroller. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2654"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2654 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sonia Chang-Diaz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-24"
last_action: "2022-02-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc286182-babe-44b0-8555-1e057b67d152"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2654"
source_hash: "5c2682c3f04f71e7c0fc2141e443e96a545a25eebe676a43caf69fe3ccdc418a"
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 S 2654 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Alecia Simmons, an employee of the Office of the Comptroller

By Ms. Chang-Diaz, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2654) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Sonia Chang-Diaz and Russell E. Holmes for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Alecia Simmons, an employee of the Office of the Comptroller. 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/S2654.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Sonia Chang-Diaz — primary (person)
- Russell E. Holmes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-24** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Rules suspended
- **2022-01-31** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** House concurred
- **2022-02-10** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-10** Rules suspended
- **2022-02-10** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-02-14** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-02-16** Rules suspended
- **2022-02-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-02-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-02-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-02-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 27 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/dc286182-babe-44b0-8555-1e057b67d152`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).