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Bill	An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Joseph Gatto, An employee of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department	By Representative McMurtry of Dedham and Senator Rush, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul McMurtry and Michael F. Rush for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Joseph Gatto, an employee of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department. Public Service.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	191st	H 4999	Massachusetts H 4999 (191st)	bill		enacted		1	15	0	2020-09-17	2020-11-12	openstates	ocd-bill/8decf21a-61c8-4739-92c7-c71654a2d176	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4999	53f50ea73ee4c3b5ef57770cd45a88874dd0e7a5d0ce8d68a48444387d95a670	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4999 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Joseph Gatto, An employee of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department

By Representative McMurtry of Dedham and Senator Rush, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul McMurtry and Michael F. Rush for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Joseph Gatto, an employee of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department. 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

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

Timeline

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

• 2020-09-17 Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2020-09-24 Senate concurred
• 2020-09-28 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-10-05 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2020-10-05 Rules suspended
• 2020-10-05 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2020-10-13 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-10-15 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-11-02 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2020-11-02 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-11-05 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-11-05 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-11-05 Enacted passage
• 2020-11-05 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2020-11-12 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 205 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8decf21a-61c8-4739-92c7-c71654a2d176. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).