---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Racquel Jean-Louis, an employee of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department"
description: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Racquel Jean-Louis, an employee of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4585"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4585 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Public Service"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-03-26"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/509cf634-0e3f-4b31-bf0b-c6990655aeff"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4585"
source_hash: "d98c600b16833bffda90f2abc1a085ff89ca2795310c8be9e7568a69affa5173"
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 4585 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Racquel Jean-Louis, an employee of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department

## 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/H4585.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Haddad — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-26** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2020-03-26** New draft of H4579
- **2020-03-26** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-03-30** Rules suspended
- **2020-03-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-04-02** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-04-06** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2020-04-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-04-09** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-04-13** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-04-13** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-04-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-04-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-04-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 62 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/509cf634-0e3f-4b31-bf0b-c6990655aeff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).