---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jonathan Turner, an employee of the Norfolk County sheriff's office"
description: "By Mr. Feeney, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul R. Feeney and F. Jay Barrows for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Jonathan Turner, an employee of the Norfolk County sheriff's office. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2981"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2981 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul R. Feeney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-10-17"
last_action: "2024-12-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4752a45b-a643-4dc7-95fd-40e87034f33c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2981"
source_hash: "9c36d7b9402ee23ed2bdb1fb633270f012140e0764c91d9e131bbf4e7e5dd647"
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 2981 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jonathan Turner, an employee of the Norfolk County sheriff's office

By Mr. Feeney, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul R. Feeney and F. Jay Barrows for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Jonathan Turner, an employee of the Norfolk 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/S2981.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul R. Feeney — primary (person)
- F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-17** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2024-11-07** Rules suspended
- **2024-11-07** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2024-11-12** House concurred
- **2024-11-14** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-11-14** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-11-21** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-11-21** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-11-22** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-11-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-11-25** Rules suspended
- **2024-11-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-12-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-12-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-12-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-12-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-12-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 256 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/4752a45b-a643-4dc7-95fd-40e87034f33c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).