---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Kate Sout-Sorm, an employee of the department of transitional assistance"
description: "By Ms. Friedman, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Cindy F. Friedman for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Kate Sout-Sorm, an employee of the department of transitional assistance. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2986"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2986 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy F. Friedman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-10-31"
last_action: "2024-12-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9645009b-196d-4a79-8f8c-d0b8bfef2af4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2986"
source_hash: "250bac6ffb5c97d607603b5c76feddee0c46fd039f425ca3969d620c6e81fa8f"
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 2986 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Kate Sout-Sorm, an employee of the department of transitional assistance

By Ms. Friedman, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Cindy F. Friedman for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Kate Sout-Sorm, an employee of the department of transitional assistance. Public Service.

## 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/S2986.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Cindy F. Friedman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-31** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2024-11-12** Rules suspended
- **2024-11-12** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2024-11-25** House concurred
- **2024-11-27** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-11-27** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-12-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-12-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-12-09** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-12-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-12-12** Rules suspended
- **2024-12-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, 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 273 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/9645009b-196d-4a79-8f8c-d0b8bfef2af4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).