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Bill	An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Linda Thernize-Williams, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance	By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Walter F. Timilty for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Linda Thernize-Williams, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance. Public Service.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	S 2251	Massachusetts S 2251 (190th)	bill		enacted	Walter F. Timilty	1	20	0	2017-10-26	2018-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/53329955-c766-4c67-9f2f-8154fb6257a8	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2251	10cdfa29075401c245a4c8c3cd5128ca1cd6cde715fc79a7de583cec7fac8e61	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2251 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Linda Thernize-Williams, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance

By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Walter F. Timilty for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Linda Thernize-Williams, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance. Public Service.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Walter F. Timilty — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-10-26 Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently referral-committee
• 2017-12-07 Rules suspended
• 2017-12-07 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2018-01-16 House concurred
• 2018-01-29 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-14 Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
• 2018-02-14 Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-14 Rules suspended
• 2018-02-14 Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2018-02-15 Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2018-02-20 Rules suspended
• 2018-02-20 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2018-03-15 Rules suspended
• 2018-03-15 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2018-03-15 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2018-03-15 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2018-03-15 Enacted passage
• 2018-03-15 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2018-03-23 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 51 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53329955-c766-4c67-9f2f-8154fb6257a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).