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Bill	An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Melvin Maldonado, an employee of the Department of Mental Health	By Mr. Lesser, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2444) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Eric P. Lesser and José F. Tosado for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Melvin Maldonado, an employee of the Department of Mental Health. Public Service.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	S 2444	Massachusetts S 2444 (190th)	bill		enacted	Eric P. Lesser	1	18	0	2018-04-02	2018-06-21	openstates	ocd-bill/f0fb345b-0495-4c85-974b-203c419ec0f9	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2444	451ccf7791d1ecd7cf7885c6d104a770d82c1c9f3292f49ecc3258877858331e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2444 (190th) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Melvin Maldonado, an employee of the Department of Mental Health

By Mr. Lesser, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2444) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Eric P. Lesser and José F. Tosado for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Melvin Maldonado, an employee of the Department of Mental Health. 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

• Eric P. Lesser — primary (person)
• José F. Tosado — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-02 Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently referral-committee
• 2018-04-09 Rules suspended
• 2018-04-09 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2018-04-17 House concurred
• 2018-05-03 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-05-14 Committee recommended ought to pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-05-14 Rules suspended
• 2018-05-14 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2018-05-16 Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2018-05-23 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2018-05-23 Rules suspended
• 2018-05-23 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2018-06-07 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2018-06-11 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2018-06-14 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2018-06-14 Enacted passage
• 2018-06-14 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2018-06-21 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 117 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f0fb345b-0495-4c85-974b-203c419ec0f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).