---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Kimberly Martinelli"
description: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Kimberly Martinelli"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4980"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4980 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-08-05"
last_action: "2024-12-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fa09d46-745b-4f40-bbc4-a0457bc53170"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4980"
source_hash: "aa1f228df061442ea94bc1b5f16f8d0d7541c8785394a3a6989dc91dfbea8d97"
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 4980 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Kimberly Martinelli

## 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/H4980.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Michael J. Soter — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan C. Fattman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-08-05** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2024-08-05** New draft of H4945
- **2024-08-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-08-08** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-08-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-12-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-12-12** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-12-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-12-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-12-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-12-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 276 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fa09d46-745b-4f40-bbc4-a0457bc53170`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).