---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Courtney Cochran, an employee of the Department of Children & Families (DCF)"
description: "By Representative Marsi of Charlton and Senator Fattman, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John J. Marsi for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Courtney Cochran, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 5245"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5245 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2026-03-05"
last_action: "2026-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f722fd1b-1961-4fc8-ba27-fad179709ece"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5245"
source_hash: "0c3ede60007b8136308f68da5b191718d9b0f073c807dae163e88e95d16bc055"
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 5245 (194th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Courtney Cochran, an employee of the Department of Children & Families (DCF)

By Representative Marsi of Charlton and Senator Fattman, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John J. Marsi for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Courtney Cochran, an employee of the Department of Children and Families. 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/H5245.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John J. Marsi — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-05** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-09** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-12** Senate concurred
- **2026-03-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-03-19** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-01** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-05-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-05-04** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-05-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-05-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-05-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-05-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 82 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f722fd1b-1961-4fc8-ba27-fad179709ece`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).