---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Lisa Balentine, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance"
description: "By Representative Cassidy of Brockton, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Gerard J. Cassidy and Alyson M. Sullivan-Almeida for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Lisa Balentine, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3779"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3779 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerard J. Cassidy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-04-10"
last_action: "2024-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82a6c3f2-eafc-42f4-9866-4d7f774a5756"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3779"
source_hash: "957f087b592f872957a510a9dee54283a5890f8669d10fa069a80a943f3c5e49"
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 3779 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Lisa Balentine, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance

By Representative Cassidy of Brockton, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Gerard J. Cassidy and Alyson M. Sullivan-Almeida for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Lisa Balentine, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance. 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/193/H3779.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Gerard J. Cassidy — primary (person)
- Alyson M. Sullivan-Almeida — cosponsor (person)
- Michael D. Brady — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-10** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** Senate concurred
- **2023-04-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-04-24** Rules suspended
- **2023-04-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-03-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-03-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 66 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82a6c3f2-eafc-42f4-9866-4d7f774a5756`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).