---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Lornece Tull, an employee of the Department of Correction"
description: "By Mr. Heroux of Attleboro, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul R. Heroux for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Lornece Tull, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3877"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3877 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul R. Heroux"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-07-27"
last_action: "2017-10-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ad4b11e-d653-4b4e-91d7-dd3442daabe0"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3877"
source_hash: "5450bb22ca4f68e3fc04ebd9af6317bf57c90214039336a734ad09dd13ebc11f"
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 3877 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Lornece Tull, an employee of the Department of Correction

By Mr. Heroux of Attleboro, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul R. Heroux for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Lornece Tull, 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/H3877.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul R. Heroux — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-27** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-03** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-07** 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`
- **2017-08-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-08-28** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-09-11** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-09-14** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-12** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-10-12** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-10-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-10-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-10-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-10-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-10-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 105 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/5ad4b11e-d653-4b4e-91d7-dd3442daabe0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).