---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Gabriella Ruocco"
description: "By Representative Higgins of Leominster and Senator Cronin, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Natalie M. Higgins and John J. Cronin for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Gabriella Ruocco, an employee of the Department of the State Police. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4755"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4755 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-06-05"
last_action: "2024-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d578a0b-3b6c-49fd-adc2-6b02f9063b87"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4755"
source_hash: "aefa4e25362f479d0f35a1dc7e9bd0e235bae76f5e787f0c29534dcab6ef612b"
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 4755 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Gabriella Ruocco

By Representative Higgins of Leominster and Senator Cronin, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Natalie M. Higgins and John J. Cronin for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Gabriella Ruocco, an employee of the Department of the State Police. 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/H4755.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-05** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-10** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-13** Senate concurred
- **2024-06-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-06-26** Rules suspended
- **2024-06-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-07-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-03** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-07-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-07-29** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-30** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-07-30** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-07-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 165 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/5d578a0b-3b6c-49fd-adc2-6b02f9063b87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).