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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Joseph Gatto, An employee of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4999"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4999 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-09-17"
last_action: "2020-11-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8decf21a-61c8-4739-92c7-c71654a2d176"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4999"
source_hash: "53f50ea73ee4c3b5ef57770cd45a88874dd0e7a5d0ce8d68a48444387d95a670"
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 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4999.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8decf21a-61c8-4739-92c7-c71654a2d176`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).