---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to accidental disability retirement for Jan Witkowski"
description: "By Mr. Brodeur of Melrose, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul Brodeur that the Massport Employees’ Retirement System be directed to grant accidental disability retirement benefits to Jan Witkowski. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3790"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3790 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul Brodeur"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-05-18"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc00d2ad-c17e-4db3-a074-832bf20ee654"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3790"
source_hash: "bf7e00c36f2831793315b7b2dd48f0f99e5075c4b3213f740aba339afe4f8cfd"
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 3790 (190th) — An Act relative to accidental disability retirement for Jan Witkowski

By Mr. Brodeur of Melrose, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul Brodeur that the Massport Employees’ Retirement System be directed to grant accidental disability retirement benefits to Jan Witkowski. 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/H3790.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul Brodeur — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-18** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-26** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-29** Senate concurred
- **2017-07-07** Hearing scheduled for 07/13/2017 from 02:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-2
- **2018-02-28** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2018-06-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-09-06** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-10** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-09-13** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-09-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-09-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-09-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-09-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-09-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 248 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc00d2ad-c17e-4db3-a074-832bf20ee654`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).