---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Daniel Yender, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation"
description: "By Representative Shand of Newburyport, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Dawne Shand for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Daniel Yender, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4104"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4104 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dawne Shand"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-05"
last_action: "2025-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9071d290-1927-4c46-b1e2-2a6cc258df34"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4104"
source_hash: "169a41663681df8803f8d9621fb3da2fdba4734908e1ac129949a1a1f34aba6e"
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 4104 (194th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Daniel Yender, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation

By Representative Shand of Newburyport, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Dawne Shand for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Daniel Yender, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. 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/194/H4104.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dawne Shand — primary (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-05** Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Senate concurred
- **2025-05-22** Hearing scheduled for 05/28/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-2
- **2025-05-29** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended
- **2025-05-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-16** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-17** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-07-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-07-21** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-07-21** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-07-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-07-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-07-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 13 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9071d290-1927-4c46-b1e2-2a6cc258df34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).