---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Ryan Russell, an employee of the Department of Correction"
description: "By Mr. Tran, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2218) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Dean A. Tran for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Ryan Russell, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2218"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2218 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dean A. Tran"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-04-04"
last_action: "2019-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5f0896e-53f2-4b5f-9769-1e665b56e8e1"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2218"
source_hash: "8a319f8f857eb3f3e6fc79fe04e294d8b0a038a5dbf325b079313d0b1168e2f1"
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 S 2218 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Ryan Russell, an employee of the Department of Correction

By Mr. Tran, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2218) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Dean A. Tran for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Ryan Russell, an employee of the Department of Correction. 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/S2218.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dean A. Tran — primary (person)
- Dean A. Tran — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-04** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11** Rules suspended
- **2019-04-11** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** House concurred
- **2019-05-16** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-16** Rules suspended
- **2019-05-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-06-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-06-24** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-06-27** Rules suspended
- **2019-06-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-07-24** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-24** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-25** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-07-25** 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 51 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/d5f0896e-53f2-4b5f-9769-1e665b56e8e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).