---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Tracey Pisano, an employee of the trial court of the Commonwealth"
description: "By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of James B. Eldridge for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Tracey Pisano, an employee of the trial court of the Commonwealth. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2556"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2556 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James B. Eldridge"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-05"
last_action: "2020-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0921506-444c-4423-ac41-3128204e377a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2556"
source_hash: "2b1d1d300eb91fcb5dfa38f39fdff3a28075dd10cc2be52afa471f1313d092e3"
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 2556 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Tracey Pisano, an employee of the trial court of the Commonwealth

By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of James B. Eldridge for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Tracey Pisano, an employee of the trial court of the Commonwealth. The Judiciary.

## 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/S2556.pdf)

## Sponsors

- James B. Eldridge — primary (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila C. Harrington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-05** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Rules suspended
- **2020-02-13** Referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** House concurred
- **2020-02-24** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-24** Rules suspended
- **2020-02-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-03-05** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-03-12** Rules suspended
- **2020-03-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-04-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-04-02** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-04-02** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-04-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-04-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-04-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 58 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/d0921506-444c-4423-ac41-3128204e377a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).