---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Eric J. Iwaniec"
description: "By Representative Berthiaume of Spencer and Senator Durant, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1590) of Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr., for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Eric J. Iwaniec, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 1590"
citation: "Massachusetts H 1590 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-11-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e1499ec-10cf-441a-998c-d983f385e5bb"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H1590"
source_hash: "c68be78f0848a73913b0fee3414f85b5bedc23fc7257588942c577cf705ba617"
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 1590 (194th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Eric J. Iwaniec

By Representative Berthiaume of Spencer and Senator Durant, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1590) of Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr., for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Eric J. Iwaniec, an employee of the Trial Court. 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/194/H1590.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Senate concurred
- **2025-06-02** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-06-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-26** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-30** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-11-03** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-11-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 67 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e1499ec-10cf-441a-998c-d983f385e5bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).