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Bill	An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Paul Geraghty, an employee of the Trial Court of the commonwealth	By Representative McMurtry of Dedham and Senator Rush, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 905) of Paul McMurtry, Michael F. Rush and John H. Rogers relative to establishing a sick leave bank for Paul Geraghty, an employee of the Norfolk Superior Court department of the Trial Court. The Judiciary.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 905	Massachusetts H 905 (190th)	bill		enacted		1	16	0	2017-01-23	2017-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/3d49ce38-5d15-4c55-910b-75ae5d0320ff	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H905	3c21b5f21fd65b333a3959f3301c7adcd0be5cee25fa26c460c8065dff36866c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 905 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Paul Geraghty, an employee of the Trial Court of the commonwealth

By Representative McMurtry of Dedham and Senator Rush, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 905) of Paul McMurtry, Michael F. Rush and John H. Rogers relative to establishing a sick leave bank for Paul Geraghty, an employee of the Norfolk Superior Court department 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

Sponsors

• John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)
• Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-23 Referred to the committee on The Judiciary referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 Senate concurred
• 2017-03-06 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-09 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2017-03-09 Rules suspended
• 2017-03-09 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2017-03-16 Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2017-03-20 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2017-06-22 Committee recommended ought to pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-22 Rules suspended
• 2017-06-22 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2017-06-26 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2017-06-26 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2017-06-26 Enacted passage
• 2017-06-26 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2017-06-29 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 29 of the Acts of 2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3d49ce38-5d15-4c55-910b-75ae5d0320ff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).