---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Clara Bett, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth"
description: "By Mr. Cronin, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 3117) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John J. Cronin and Natalie M. Higgins for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Clara Bett, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 3117"
citation: "Massachusetts S 3117 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John J. Cronin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-06-06"
last_action: "2022-12-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74e8e32e-a2c8-4315-b173-6bc79fe9e298"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S3117"
source_hash: "bc17c8eeb329c7b17de37081b74ed47e1ac65f017b554ca1520ecc45c60cbafa"
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 3117 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Clara Bett, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth

By Mr. Cronin, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 3117) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John J. Cronin and Natalie M. Higgins for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Clara Bett, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth. The Judiciary.

## 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/S3117.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John J. Cronin — primary (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-06** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-09** Referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-09-15** House concurred
- **2022-09-19** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-19** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-11-21** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-11-21** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-11-23** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-11-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-11-28** Rules suspended
- **2022-11-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-12-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-12-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-12-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-12-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 294 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/74e8e32e-a2c8-4315-b173-6bc79fe9e298`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).