---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Scott A. Smith, an employee of the Trial Court"
description: "By Mr. Brodeur of Melrose, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul Brodeur for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Scott A. Smith, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3693"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3693 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul Brodeur"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-04-10"
last_action: "2019-07-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e70113b6-c85c-4df0-a88a-e0774d142263"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3693"
source_hash: "81343742764b4ca192c5b4121f51a2eac8b9ceed6ced572444f5baa9d6705b45"
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 3693 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Scott A. Smith, an employee of the Trial Court

By Mr. Brodeur of Melrose, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul Brodeur for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Scott A. Smith, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary.

## 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/H3693.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul Brodeur — primary (person)
- Paul Brodeur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-10** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Senate concurred
- **2019-04-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-04-29** Rules suspended
- **2019-04-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-07-16** Taken from the Orders of the Day
- **2019-07-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-07-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-07-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-07-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-07-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 39 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/e70113b6-c85c-4df0-a88a-e0774d142263`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).