---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Patty Woods, an employee of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination"
description: "By Mr. Williams of Springfield, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bud L. Williams and others for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Patty Woods, an employee of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3508"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3508 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bud L. Williams"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-28"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4f504a7-ab18-4cca-99c4-9e095d24c554"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3508"
source_hash: "c163b99456bfd3dfa02d83b62643caaee1e7607c1c6ce7a28bf514597092a1da"
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 3508 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Patty Woods, an employee of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

By Mr. Williams of Springfield, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bud L. Williams and others for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Patty Woods, an employee of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. 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/191/H3508.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bud L. Williams — primary (person)
- Bud L. Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Carlos González — cosponsor (person)
- Donald F. Humason, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- James K. Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Mindy Domb — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-28** 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`
- **2019-03-04** Senate concurred
- **2019-03-07** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-03-13** Rules suspended
- **2019-03-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-04-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-04-04** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-04-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-04-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 9 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4f504a7-ab18-4cca-99c4-9e095d24c554`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).