---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for James Caruso, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation"
description: "By Representatives Honan of Boston and Michael J. Moran of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kevin G. Honan and Michael J. Moran for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for James Caruso, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4230"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4230 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-24"
last_action: "2025-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf6acd45-71d6-4947-a8a4-46194988c497"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4230"
source_hash: "5c3f914a2698de762e63ab37c05d149dc2ff481dca800dd9f39704e47d13bc68"
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 4230 (194th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for James Caruso, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation

By Representatives Honan of Boston and Michael J. Moran of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kevin G. Honan and Michael J. Moran for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for James Caruso, 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/H4230.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Moran — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-24** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-23** Senate concurred
- **2025-06-26** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-06-26** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-07-03** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-08-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-08-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-08-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-08-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-09-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 22 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/bf6acd45-71d6-4947-a8a4-46194988c497`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).