---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Amy Tanguay"
description: "By Representative Arriaga of Chicopee, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Shirley B. Arriaga for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Amy Tanguay, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4647"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4647 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shirley B. Arriaga"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-09-29"
last_action: "2025-12-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7643696a-2425-4053-a169-3d24a4c13704"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4647"
source_hash: "9c6011cc585746e044f58971e6c838a04f24fe377bcdfc34250d346d292c0495"
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 4647 (194th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Amy Tanguay

By Representative Arriaga of Chicopee, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Shirley B. Arriaga for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Amy Tanguay, 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/H4647.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Shirley B. Arriaga — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-29** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-22** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-23** Senate concurred
- **2025-11-03** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-11-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-11-03** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-19** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-12-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-12-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-12-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-12-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-12-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-12-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-12-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 91 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/7643696a-2425-4053-a169-3d24a4c13704`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).