---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Dr. Heidi Tarr Henson. an employee of the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development"
description: "Senate, May 5, 2022 -- The committee on Public Service, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2845) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Dr. Heidi Tarr Henson, an employee of the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2863)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2863"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2863 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Public Service"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-05-25"
last_action: "2022-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7c46f14-6349-4eda-8a95-196d1f6b5a31"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2863"
source_hash: "a7c07192b25eecec4e0b484e193e67f30e7c4d9b5cc7f8c2d050bc6790eb8604"
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 2863 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Dr. Heidi Tarr Henson. an employee of the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development

Senate, May 5, 2022 -- The committee on Public Service, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2845) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Dr. Heidi Tarr Henson, an employee of the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2863).

## 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/S2863.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)
- Ann-Margaret Ferrante — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2022-05-25** New draft of S2845
- **2022-05-25** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-25** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-05-25** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-25** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-06-02** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-08** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-08** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-06-09** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-06-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-06-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-06-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 86 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/e7c46f14-6349-4eda-8a95-196d1f6b5a31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).