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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Timothy Cuthbert, an employee of the Department of State Police"
description: "By Representative Straus of Mattapoisett and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of William M. Straus and Michael J. Rodrigues for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Timothy Cuthbert, an employee of the Department of State Police. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3959"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3959 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-07-01"
last_action: "2019-08-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e459448-1e39-464a-bc38-2c157782a679"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3959"
source_hash: "b67c7b3ca6c6ca0ac4724537edf51a577c31a947124534e1e098b92888cbe5a5"
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 3959 (191st) — An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Timothy Cuthbert, an employee of the Department of State Police
By Representative Straus of Mattapoisett and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of William M. Straus and Michael J. Rodrigues for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Timothy Cuthbert, an employee of the Department of State Police. 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/191/H3959.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
- William M. Straus — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-07-01** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-02** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-03** Senate concurred
- **2019-07-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-07-15** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-07-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-22** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-08-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-08-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-08-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-08-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-08-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-08-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-08-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e459448-1e39-464a-bc38-2c157782a679`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).