---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Matthew McRae"
description: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Matthew McRae"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4085"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4085 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-09-11"
last_action: "2023-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d89be09-59db-4605-98c0-4082c4b1c9f5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4085"
source_hash: "eaa70254db2633e3b3e42800ba653cc2e3be9c7a1f1ea589f91b2963af29a5f8"
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 H 4085 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Matthew McRae

## 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/193/H4085.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret R. Scarsdale — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-11** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2023-09-11** New draft of H4084
- **2023-09-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-09-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-09-14** Rules suspended
- **2023-09-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-09-21** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-25** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-28** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-09-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-09-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-09-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-09-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-10-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 49 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d89be09-59db-4605-98c0-4082c4b1c9f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).