---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Shana Hicks, an employee of the Department of Public Health"
description: "By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2792) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Walter F. Timilty, Paul R. Feeney and William C. Galvin for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Shana Hicks, an employee of the Department of Public Health. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2792"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2792 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walter F. Timilty"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dda08bad-89f5-48cb-b5c9-e32104888d73"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2792"
source_hash: "625906e6fa9c2fb651138b9c91697f525900a94d2e672e934742ca6861567aca"
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 2792 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Shana Hicks, an employee of the Department of Public Health

By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2792) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Walter F. Timilty, Paul R. Feeney and William C. Galvin for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Shana Hicks, an employee of the Department of Public Health. 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/S2792.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Walter F. Timilty — primary (person)
- Paul R. Feeney — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-03** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-10** Rules suspended
- **2022-03-10** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21** House concurred
- **2022-03-24** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-24** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-03-28** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-03-31** Rules suspended
- **2022-03-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-04-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-04-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-04-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-04-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-04-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 51 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/dda08bad-89f5-48cb-b5c9-e32104888d73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).