---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Thomas Hartley, an employee of the Department of Corrections"
description: "By Representative Garlick of Needham and Senator Rausch, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Denise C. Garlick and Rebecca L. Rausch for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Thomas Hartley, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3966"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3966 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-06-22"
last_action: "2023-08-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/440ed369-09ad-44a2-b244-6b14f9f5866e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3966"
source_hash: "bef3db64e8badaef26b421e56ecc2c3ca01d5d30f0c4fbdf5782b4c2c0f82524"
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 3966 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Thomas Hartley, an employee of the Department of Corrections

By Representative Garlick of Needham and Senator Rausch, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Denise C. Garlick and Rebecca L. Rausch for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Thomas Hartley, 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/193/H3966.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-22** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-29** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-03** Senate concurred
- **2023-07-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-07-10** Rules suspended
- **2023-07-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-07-13** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-07-17** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-08-03** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-08-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-08-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-08-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-08-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-08-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-08-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 29 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/440ed369-09ad-44a2-b244-6b14f9f5866e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).