---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Marta Romero, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4632). May 4, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4691"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4691 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-05-04"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e3fa412-e066-441e-8b4d-3d61df273996"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4691"
source_hash: "0073dc00fb2c5a558ea40c18c41edf0eba71023d8d70bc89f3d649f1aabffa14"
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 4691 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Marta Romero, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4632). May 4, 2020.

## 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/H4691.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- Aaron Vega — cosponsor (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-05-04** Substituted for H4632
- **2020-05-04** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-05-11** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-06-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-06-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-06-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-06-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 99 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/1e3fa412-e066-441e-8b4d-3d61df273996`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).