---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Danielle Marie Cruz, an employee of the trial court"
description: "By Mr. Oliveira, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2537) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jacob R. Oliveira and Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Danielle Marie Cruz, an employee of the trial court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2537"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2537 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacob R. Oliveira"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-11-02"
last_action: "2024-02-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d66013f-5ef1-4ac9-9954-f52d5ec33833"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2537"
source_hash: "e34505f56971c3e88f2a95ef7eb016f1fe56864226bdf29feb7191aba4361ee6"
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 S 2537 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Danielle Marie Cruz, an employee of the trial court

By Mr. Oliveira, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2537) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jacob R. Oliveira and Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Danielle Marie Cruz, 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/S2537.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Jacob R. Oliveira — primary (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-02** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-13** Rules suspended
- **2023-11-13** Referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-21** House concurred
- **2024-01-02** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-02** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-01-22** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-01-22** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-25** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-01-29** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-02-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-02-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-02-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 38 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/8d66013f-5ef1-4ac9-9954-f52d5ec33833`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).