---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Andrew Williams, an employee of the Department of Conservation and Recreation"
description: "By Representative Cusack of Braintree and Senator Timilty, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Mark J. Cusack and Walter F. Timilty for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Andrew Williams, an employee of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3848"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3848 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-07-06"
last_action: "2017-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64705491-8b08-4cd9-8e19-96a17dfbcfc7"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3848"
source_hash: "108f40c432c42cfdba5a9d8dbefac974f3fe739cf45239b69d590712a1bc8e57"
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 3848 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Andrew Williams, an employee of the Department of Conservation and Recreation

By Representative Cusack of Braintree and Senator Timilty, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Mark J. Cusack and Walter F. Timilty for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Andrew Williams, an employee of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. 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/H3848.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Mark J. Cusack — cosponsor (person)
- Walter F. Timilty — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-06** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-24** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-26** Senate concurred
- **2017-07-31** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-08-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-08-03** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-08-17** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-08-21** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-05** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-09-05** Read second, rules suspended, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-09-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-09-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-09-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-09-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-09-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 81 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/64705491-8b08-4cd9-8e19-96a17dfbcfc7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).