---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for William Donahue, an employee of the trial court"
description: "By Representative Ryan of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Daniel J. Ryan for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for William Donahue, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3778"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3778 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel J. Ryan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2b4abf6-bcad-4d65-a260-126d5c44b8a2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3778"
source_hash: "324529f239df38b29160178fc1ae18c1a5e52b141a4abeb50a3faa098aa273a2"
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 3778 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for William Donahue, an employee of the trial court

By Representative Ryan of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Daniel J. Ryan for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for William Donahue, an employee of the Trial Court. 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/193/H3778.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Daniel J. Ryan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-30** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** Senate concurred
- **2023-04-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-04-24** Rules suspended
- **2023-04-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-17** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-07-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-07-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-07-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-07-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-07-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-07-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 23 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/c2b4abf6-bcad-4d65-a260-126d5c44b8a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).