---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Marlene M. Ayash, an employee of the Trial Court"
description: "By Ms. Balser of Newton, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Ruth B. Balser and Cynthia S. Creem for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Marlene M. Ayash, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3945"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3945 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ruth B. Balser"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-09-21"
last_action: "2017-12-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef1f7944-ad09-4279-91fe-0c8b64b73cd6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3945"
source_hash: "9677c98d0d8b451bdfd8f77f5c21452b099d8b6928420cf2165269d306c9a5f1"
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 3945 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Marlene M. Ayash, an employee of the Trial Court

By Ms. Balser of Newton, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Ruth B. Balser and Cynthia S. Creem for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Marlene M. Ayash, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary.

## 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/H3945.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Ruth B. Balser — primary (person)
- Cynthia Stone Creem — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-09-21** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-05** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-10** Senate concurred
- **2017-10-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-10-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-10-17** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-10-30** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-11** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-11** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-11** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-12-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-12-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-12-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-12-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-12-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 155 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/ef1f7944-ad09-4279-91fe-0c8b64b73cd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).