---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Rachel Pride, an employee of the Department of Youth Services"
description: "By Ms. Gobi, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 37) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Anne M. Gobi, Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. and Sal N. DiDomenico for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Rachel Pride, an employee of the Department of Youth Services. Senate Rules."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 37"
citation: "Massachusetts S 37 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anne M. Gobi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-18"
last_action: "2021-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef154446-7c93-4249-8718-0e9554b7f605"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S37"
source_hash: "933a586f70952d4489a85fd1158ae29f161ddffcc7b8ff11d374fa26dbc1fc2d"
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 37 (192nd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Rachel Pride, an employee of the Department of Youth Services

By Ms. Gobi, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 37) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Anne M. Gobi, Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. and Sal N. DiDomenico for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Rachel Pride, an employee of the Department of Youth Services. Senate Rules.

## 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/S37.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Anne M. Gobi — primary (person)
- Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sal N. DiDomenico — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-18** Senate Rule 20 and Joint Rule 12 suspended
- **2021-03-18** Referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** House concurred
- **2021-03-22** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22** Rules suspended
- **2021-03-22** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-03-22** Rules suspended
- **2021-03-22** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-03-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-03-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-03-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 7 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/ef154446-7c93-4249-8718-0e9554b7f605`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).