---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Gregory Baker, an employee of the Suffolk County Sherriff's office"
description: "By Mrs. Dooner, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2560) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kelly A. Dooner, William J. Driscoll, Jr. and John F. Keenan for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Gregory Baker, an employee of the Suffolk County Sherriff's office. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 2560"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2560 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly A. Dooner"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-21"
last_action: "2025-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/461ec4b6-d883-4b0c-8b69-ca888c27a8cd"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2560"
source_hash: "cecc257bc47d9c907d255803a3968bb272ca482541dfbdd101ea7993006d3dbe"
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 2560 (194th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Gregory Baker, an employee of the Suffolk County Sherriff's office

By Mrs. Dooner, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2560) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kelly A. Dooner, William J. Driscoll, Jr. and John F. Keenan for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Gregory Baker, an employee of the Suffolk County Sherriff's office. 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/194/S2560.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kelly A. Dooner — primary (person)
- John F. Keenan — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-21** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-26** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-21** House concurred
- **2025-07-31** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-31** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-28** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-08-28** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-02** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2025-09-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-09-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-09-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-09-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-09-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-09-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-09-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 29 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/461ec4b6-d883-4b0c-8b69-ca888c27a8cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).