---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Paula Donahue, an employee of the Department of Public Health"
description: "By Mr. Coppinger of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Edward F. Coppinger for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Paula Donahue, an employee of the Department of Public Health. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4450"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4450 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward F. Coppinger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-04-23"
last_action: "2018-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a956509a-7e09-4202-9ad7-090d837c69ef"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4450"
source_hash: "fd342d18ebed392bdeab2f9c0916c4f6f6a75ef492915947c0820427c3d51c88"
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 4450 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Paula Donahue, an employee of the Department of Public Health

By Mr. Coppinger of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Edward F. Coppinger for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Paula Donahue, an employee of the Department of Public Health. 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/H4450.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Edward F. Coppinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-23** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-24** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-26** Senate concurred
- **2018-04-30** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-05-03** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-07** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-05-09** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-22** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-05-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-05-23** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-05-23** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-05-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-05-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-05-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 103 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/a956509a-7e09-4202-9ad7-090d837c69ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).