---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Joseph Mele, an employee of the Department of Mental Health."
description: "By Mr. Roy of Franklin, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jeffrey N. Roy for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Joseph Mele, an employee of the Department of Mental Health. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4715"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4715 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey N. Roy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-02"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30f4a68f-fa2c-4842-ae24-399ec54c9f69"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4715"
source_hash: "3803eff664ceb2b6b3a04fdac0197d0f1f66587d9b293847912b4bba7254aef4"
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 4715 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Joseph Mele, an employee of the Department of Mental Health.

By Mr. Roy of Franklin, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jeffrey N. Roy for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Joseph Mele, an employee of the Department of Mental 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/H4715.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Jeffrey N. Roy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-07-02** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-03** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-09** Senate concurred
- **2018-07-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-11** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-18** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-19** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-07-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 179 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/30f4a68f-fa2c-4842-ae24-399ec54c9f69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).