---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Gary Kellenberger, an employee of the Department of Mental Health"
description: "SENATE, Thursday, March 23, 2017 - The committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill establishing a sick leave bank for Gary Kellenberger, an employee of the Department of Mental Health (Senate, No. 1414),-- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2043)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2043"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2043 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-03-23"
last_action: "2017-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02c152b9-7f05-4763-86f4-a43b4d62c3e8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2043"
source_hash: "a8a75ff51723bac90db81d50fb157d6bef0d061e91b4a66bd7a5c3a6acb7b344"
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 S 2043 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Gary Kellenberger, an employee of the Department of Mental Health

SENATE, Thursday, March 23, 2017 - The committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill establishing a sick leave bank for Gary Kellenberger, an employee of the Department of Mental Health (Senate, No. 1414),-- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2043).

## 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/S2043.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-23** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
- **2017-03-23** Recommended new draft for S1414
- **2017-03-23** Rules suspended
- **2017-03-23** Substituted for S1414
- **2017-03-23** Ordered to a third reading
- **2017-03-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-03-27** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Reported from the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- **2017-04-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-04-06** Rules suspended
- **2017-04-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-05-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-05-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-05-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-05-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-05-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 14 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/02c152b9-7f05-4763-86f4-a43b4d62c3e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).