---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Melinda Trudell, an employee of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services"
description: "By Mr. Smola of Warren, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Todd M. Smola for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Melinda Trudell, an employee of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4130"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4130 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd M. Smola"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-10-07"
last_action: "2019-11-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6a6b8be-3f98-4b91-a6ba-abf0f1246ec8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4130"
source_hash: "7cb17e10e5ae0596639a80f26758e74993fd56bb450c74f2d074223aa94fb982"
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 4130 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Melinda Trudell, an employee of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services

By Mr. Smola of Warren, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Todd M. Smola for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Melinda Trudell, an employee of the Executive Office of Health and Human 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/H4130.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Todd M. Smola — primary (person)
- Todd M. Smola — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-07** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-10** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-15** Senate concurred
- **2019-10-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-28** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-10-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-10-30** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-11-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-11-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-11-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-11-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-11-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-11-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-11-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 131 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/b6a6b8be-3f98-4b91-a6ba-abf0f1246ec8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).