---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Pamela Dube, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services"
description: "By Mr. Kelcourse of Amesbury, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of James M. Kelcourse and Kathleen O'Connor Ives for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Pamela Dube, an employee of the Department of Developmental Disabilities. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3651"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3651 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James M. Kelcourse"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-04-03"
last_action: "2017-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/878c16ff-06a2-49f2-9270-987a52df104c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3651"
source_hash: "1dbf14120c41ee47f10fa5631d4a8d958a0c0cd25c44d3fd2b7bda1216e25669"
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 3651 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Pamela Dube, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

By Mr. Kelcourse of Amesbury, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of James M. Kelcourse and Kathleen O'Connor Ives for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Pamela Dube, an employee of the Department of Developmental Disabilities. 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/190/H3651.pdf)

## Sponsors

- James M. Kelcourse — primary (person)
- Kathleen O'Connor Ives — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-04-03** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-20** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-24** Senate concurred
- **2017-05-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-05-11** Rules suspended
- **2017-05-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-24** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-05-30** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-12** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-06-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-06-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-06-19** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-06-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-06-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 28 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/878c16ff-06a2-49f2-9270-987a52df104c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).