---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Maria Benitez, an employee of the Department of Children and Families"
description: "By Representative O'Day of West Boylston and Senator Gobi, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of James J. O'Day and Anne M. Gobi for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Maria Benitez, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4474"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4474 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 30
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-03"
last_action: "2018-07-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5410bdf-d9a1-4772-87d4-c834f39f29bc"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4474"
source_hash: "6a2f4cd9767689001e3ea17f451ae2c043a1fc0f31af3add786173d1ed7fb1fd"
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 4474 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Maria Benitez, an employee of the Department of Children and Families

By Representative O'Day of West Boylston and Senator Gobi, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of James J. O'Day and Anne M. Gobi for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Maria Benitez, 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/H4474.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Anne M. Gobi — cosponsor (person)
- James J. O'Day — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-03** 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`
- **2018-05-07** Senate concurred
- **2018-05-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-05-16** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-05-29** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-06-05** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-06-05** Bills in the Third Reading report accepted
- **2018-06-05** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-06-06** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-18** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2018-06-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-06-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-06-19** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-06-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-06-28** Governor returned to the House with recommendation of amendment
- **2018-07-03** For message, see H4680
- **2018-07-03** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-03** Governors amendment adopted (in the form approved by the committee on Bills in the Third Reading) `amendment-passage`
- **2018-07-03** Amendment (as recommended by the committee on House Bills in the Third Reading) adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-07-05** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-05** Senate concurred in the Governor's amendment, as amended
- **2018-07-09** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-09** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-09** Re-enacted
- **2018-07-09** Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor
- **2018-07-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 135 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/f5410bdf-d9a1-4772-87d4-c834f39f29bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).