---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Michelle Kitchen-Taraska, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services"
description: "By Representative Hill of Ipswich and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bradford Hill and Bruce E. Tarr for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Michelle Kitchen-Taraska, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3914"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3914 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-06-17"
last_action: "2019-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/527b43b0-7260-4760-b436-90911416eae6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3914"
source_hash: "c7f9643108832fa6a3539aacf296e535ee62222dff6297303ca51e429da3f5cc"
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 3914 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Michelle Kitchen-Taraska, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

By Representative Hill of Ipswich and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bradford Hill and Bruce E. Tarr for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Michelle Kitchen-Taraska, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services. 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/H3914.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bradford Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-17** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** Senate concurred
- **2019-06-27** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-07-01** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-01** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-07-03** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-07-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-07-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-07-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-07-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-07-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-08-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 54 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/527b43b0-7260-4760-b436-90911416eae6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).