---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Kathleen Rodrigue"
description: "By Representative Berthiaume of Spencer and Senator Durant, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr., for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Kathleen Rodrigue, an employees of the Chief Medical Examiner's office. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4521"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4521 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-08-07"
last_action: "2025-11-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89c4869c-ced8-41de-a824-1709d208b0a2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4521"
source_hash: "7f06e51f8caee2f1d87636ecf9c61c9873337937ed742be2f6e1405796de2acc"
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 4521 (194th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Kathleen Rodrigue

By Representative Berthiaume of Spencer and Senator Durant, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr., for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Kathleen Rodrigue, an employees of the Chief Medical Examiner's office. 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/194/H4521.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-08-07** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-09-11** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-09-15** Senate concurred
- **2025-09-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-09-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-09-22** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-09-29** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-02** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-10-27** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-10-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-10-30** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-10-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-10-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-11-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 53 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89c4869c-ced8-41de-a824-1709d208b0a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).