---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Mary Katherine Sheehan, an employee of the trial court of the commonwealth"
description: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Mary Katherine Sheehan, an employee of the trial court of the commonwealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2966"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2966 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-10-15"
last_action: "2024-11-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/716f0afb-71ce-4ac4-9e74-1bee5311bd02"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2966"
source_hash: "f37cf99ab804ad062874045823cead0897f53cbab47a956b024ce3e7f00863da"
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 2966 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Mary Katherine Sheehan, an employee of the trial court of the commonwealth

## 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/S2966.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading — primary (organization)
- Patrick Joseph Kearney — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-15** Reported from the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
- **2024-10-15** Also based on H5058
- **2024-10-15** New draft of S2965
- **2024-10-15** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-10-17** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-10-21** Reported from the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- **2024-10-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-10-21** Rules suspended
- **2024-10-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-10-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-10-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-10-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-10-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-11-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-11-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 230 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/716f0afb-71ce-4ac4-9e74-1bee5311bd02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).