---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jody Ricketson, an employee of the Department of Children and Families"
description: "Senate, August 3, 2023 -- The committee on Public Service, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2431) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Michael J. Rodrigues for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Jody Ricketson, an employee of the Department of Children and Families, reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2433)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2433"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2433 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-08-03"
last_action: "2023-08-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b467a7e9-369d-4189-aac4-4ea1404e85a9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2433"
source_hash: "2a564f7c098fe0967daa17ae4784db176828cc794053d24009aee4f1b7225fe4"
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 2433 (193rd) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Jody Ricketson, an employee of the Department of Children and Families

Senate, August 3, 2023 -- The committee on Public Service, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2431) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Michael J. Rodrigues for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Jody Ricketson, an employee of the Department of Children and Families, reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2433).

## 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/S2433.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-08-03** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2023-08-03** New draft of S2431
- **2023-08-03** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-08-03** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-08-07** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-08-07** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-08-10** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-08-14** Rules suspended
- **2023-08-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-08-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-08-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-08-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-08-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-08-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-08-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 34 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/b467a7e9-369d-4189-aac4-4ea1404e85a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).