---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Paul O'Brien, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth"
description: "By Representative Garry of Dracut, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Colleen M. Garry and Edward J. Kennedy for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Paul O'Brien, an employee of the Trial Court. The Judiciary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4083"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4083 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Colleen M. Garry"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-08-28"
last_action: "2023-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/720d6fee-0ecd-4a16-a66d-82461930c55a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4083"
source_hash: "1597588bc90f4aafd2fffc8b7176c8f7c06fc62a8427ccf445a0e491556185bf"
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 4083 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Paul O'Brien, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth

By Representative Garry of Dracut, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Colleen M. Garry and Edward J. Kennedy for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Paul O'Brien, an employee of the 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/193/H4083.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Colleen M. Garry — primary (person)
- Edward J. Kennedy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-08-28** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-07** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on The Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-07** Senate concurred
- **2023-09-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-09-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-09-14** Rules suspended
- **2023-09-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-09-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-25** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-28** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-09-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-10-02** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-10-02** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-10-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-10-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-10-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 51 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/720d6fee-0ecd-4a16-a66d-82461930c55a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).