---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jeffrey Yacinthe, an employee of the department of elementary and secondary education"
description: "Senate, December 4, 2025 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Payano) for the Senate Bill establishing a sick leave bank for Jeffrey Yacinthe (Senate, No. 2651)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 2799"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2799 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pavel M. Payano"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-12-04"
last_action: "2026-01-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42bc3ade-8eb7-4713-9236-b68ea819e2c7"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2799"
source_hash: "5ccb5514e27ebcbf69d72a0ebc34aea4e4550c7247ae4a2984c87eee2d6a461f"
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 2799 (194th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jeffrey Yacinthe, an employee of the department of elementary and secondary education

Senate, December 4, 2025 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Payano) for the Senate Bill establishing a sick leave bank for Jeffrey Yacinthe (Senate, No. 2651).

## 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/S2799.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Pavel M. Payano — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-04** New draft (Payano) of S2651
- **2025-12-04** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2025-12-08** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-12-11** Rules suspended
- **2025-12-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-01-07** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-01-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-01-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-01-08** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-01-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42bc3ade-8eb7-4713-9236-b68ea819e2c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).