---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for William Cuttle, an employee of the Department of Children and Families"
description: "By Representative Ehrlich of Marblehead and Senator McGee, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Lori A. Ehrlich and Thomas M. McGee for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for William Cuttle, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4021"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4021 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-10-31"
last_action: "2018-01-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6016ed3b-5499-4ec8-8332-60c45c142cdc"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4021"
source_hash: "4997a8a82fd8cae8a076cc7564b2827237a5171cfbba2bfce77677033c146db6"
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 4021 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for William Cuttle, an employee of the Department of Children and Families

By Representative Ehrlich of Marblehead and Senator McGee, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Lori A. Ehrlich and Thomas M. McGee for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for William Cuttle, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. 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/H4021.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Lori A. Ehrlich — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. McGee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-31** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-06** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-08** Senate concurred
- **2017-11-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-11-22** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-11-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-12-04** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-26** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-26** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-26** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-12-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-12-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-12-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-12-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-01-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 174 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/6016ed3b-5499-4ec8-8332-60c45c142cdc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).