---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to a sick leave bank for Mark Kratman, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation"
description: "An Act relative to a sick leave bank for Mark Kratman, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4161"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4161 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-29"
last_action: "2025-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aff1ea30-6366-4fbb-abaa-f84387cd1b47"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4161"
source_hash: "9f2b75c0435b82a6da9af00d3610d46c3ef3dc13913d2114d543fae65b2e3f89"
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 4161 (194th) — An Act relative to a sick leave bank for Mark Kratman, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation

## 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/H4161.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Barry R. Finegold — cosponsor (person)
- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-29** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2025-05-29** New draft of H4102
- **2025-05-29** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended
- **2025-05-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-16** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-17** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-07-17** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-07-21** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-07-21** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-07-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-07-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-07-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 12 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/aff1ea30-6366-4fbb-abaa-f84387cd1b47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).