---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Matthew McGaughran, an employee of the Department of Correction"
description: "By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2123) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Marc R. Pacheco and Patricia A. Haddad for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Matthew McGaughran, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2123"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2123 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marc R. Pacheco"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-06-29"
last_action: "2017-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa8805f9-2a3b-4150-9ca2-66d6fa2d3f76"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2123"
source_hash: "d9553d06f61cc4421bdbc8667f4f4a63cfaa86cb0211f2a8bc39793a950f2d3c"
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 2123 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Matthew McGaughran, an employee of the Department of Correction

By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2123) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Marc R. Pacheco and Patricia A. Haddad for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Matthew McGaughran, an employee of the Department of Correction. 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/S2123.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Marc R. Pacheco — primary (person)
- Patricia A. Haddad — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-29** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-07** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-07** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-19** House concurred
- **2017-07-26** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-08-31** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-08-31** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-31** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-09-05** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-09-07** Rules suspended
- **2017-09-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-09-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-09-13** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-09-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-09-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-09-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-09-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 83 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/fa8805f9-2a3b-4150-9ca2-66d6fa2d3f76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).