---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Mary Goddard, an employee of the Department of Correction"
description: "By Mr. Donato of Medford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul J. Donato, Paul Brodeur and Steven Ultrino for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Mary Goddard, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3868"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3868 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul J. Donato"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-07-31"
last_action: "2018-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb7e89ff-8d2c-4550-871d-2dcb7ca02343"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3868"
source_hash: "761dad065c454b368edc6fe3bb33424a57d36744ed9c752407f76559e9c72de6"
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 3868 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Mary Goddard, an employee of the Department of Correction

By Mr. Donato of Medford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul J. Donato, Paul Brodeur and Steven Ultrino for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Mary Goddard, an employee of the Department of Correction. 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/H3868.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul J. Donato — primary (person)
- Paul Brodeur — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-31** Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-03** Senate concurred
- **2017-08-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-08-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-08-17** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-07** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Amendment 1 adopted, as changed `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-07** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-02-12** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-09** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-04-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-04-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-04-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-04-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-04-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 73 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/eb7e89ff-8d2c-4550-871d-2dcb7ca02343`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).