---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Hollie Barter, an employee of the Department of Children and Families"
description: "By Representative Donaghue of Westborough, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kate Donaghue for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Hollie Barter, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3713"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3713 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kate Donaghue"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0669a29f-5a37-4f31-9657-4c87da05a545"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3713"
source_hash: "d2ab4011e341779d8d6dd6e688f7e0ac09df16f3aad90136958f500e3d25191e"
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 3713 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Hollie Barter, an employee of the Department of Children and Families

By Representative Donaghue of Westborough, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kate Donaghue for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Hollie Barter, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. 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/193/H3713.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kate Donaghue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-30** Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Senate concurred
- **2023-04-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-04-10** Rules suspended
- **2023-04-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-13** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-04-13** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-04-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-04-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 6 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0669a29f-5a37-4f31-9657-4c87da05a545`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).