---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Peter Ferony, an employee of the Massachusetts Trial Court"
description: "By Mr. Hinds, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2237) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Adam G. Hinds and Natalie M. Blais for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Peter Ferony, an employee of the Massachusetts Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2237"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2237 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adam G. Hinds"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-04-22"
last_action: "2019-07-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78f26f8a-be6d-47fd-85b1-8710bdc005d9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2237"
source_hash: "afb9576a5a41d679800d8ebf8d313b5e111cf12d0741a21f3059d7bdd1ab7c41"
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 2237 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Peter Ferony, an employee of the Massachusetts Trial Court

By Mr. Hinds, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2237) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Adam G. Hinds and Natalie M. Blais for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Peter Ferony, an employee of the Massachusetts Trial Court. The Judiciary.

## 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/191/S2237.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Adam G. Hinds — primary (person)
- Adam G. Hinds — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-22** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Rules suspended
- **2019-05-09** Referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-03** House concurred
- **2019-06-06** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-06** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-07-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-07-09** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-10** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-07-11** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-07-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-07-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-07-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-07-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-07-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 38 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78f26f8a-be6d-47fd-85b1-8710bdc005d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).