---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Cheryl Thouin, an employee of the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Office"
description: "By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Mark, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Natalie M. Blais and Paul W. Mark for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Cheryl Thouin, an employee of the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Office. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4233"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4233 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-12-18"
last_action: "2024-01-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a37ffe86-9d27-4041-8a94-659f68b82387"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4233"
source_hash: "72f13dfd22900d57099f36b299b6ac09c2a50ab1a8bb0d1168d32f6857fb450a"
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 4233 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Cheryl Thouin, an employee of the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Office

By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Mark, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Natalie M. Blais and Paul W. Mark for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Cheryl Thouin, an employee of the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Office. 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/H4233.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-18** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-21** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-26** Senate concurred
- **2024-01-02** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-01-04** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-22** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-01-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-01-25** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-25** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-01-25** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-01-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-01-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-01-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 14 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a37ffe86-9d27-4041-8a94-659f68b82387`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).