---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Carlos Borges"
description: "By Representative Doherty of Taunton, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Carol A. Doherty for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Carlos Borges, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4322"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4322 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carol A. Doherty"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/821f19c3-03d2-410b-aaad-8bd70d3aaa9d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4322"
source_hash: "9b8a19b75486271d68b5e6f590db152e48f57191f3f2b129c94ba529ad8a0a8c"
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 4322 (194th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Carlos Borges

By Representative Doherty of Taunton, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Carol A. Doherty for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Carlos Borges, an employee of the Department of Correction. 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/H4322.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Carol A. Doherty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-21** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-24** Senate concurred
- **2025-08-04** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-08-07** Rules suspended
- **2025-08-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-08-18** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-21** 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 `reading-3`
- **2025-08-25** Bill in the Third Reading report accepted
- **2025-08-25** Accompanied by S2562
- **2025-08-25** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **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 23 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/821f19c3-03d2-410b-aaad-8bd70d3aaa9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).