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House advances several private sick‑leave bank bills for named state employees
Summary
The House moved multiple bills that would establish sick‑leave banks for individual state employees to engrossment or enactment; several bills received emergency preambles or amendments on the floor.
The House advanced several bills to establish sick‑leave banks for individual state employees, moving them to engrossment or final passage and adopting floor amendments to insert emergency preambles in some cases.
Bills moved forward included Senate 2580 (establishing a sick‑leave bank for Robert Tiro, an employee of the trial court), House 2798 (Kendra Winter, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education), House 1596 (Anna C. Contreras, trial court), and House 4322 (Carlos Borges, Department of Correction). Several of the bills were passed “to be engrossed” by voice vote; on bills with amendments the clerk read the changes into the record.
Representative Walsh of Peabody moved amendments inserting emergency preambles for House 1596 (Anna C. Contreras) and House 4322 (Carlos Borges); both amendments were adopted. For House 4322 the amendment also struck out section 2. Senate 2580 (Robert Tiro) received an emergency preamble and a separate constitutionally required division vote on that preamble before the bill was returned “to be enacted.” The transcript records voice votes with the floor response “the ayes have it” for many of these actions; floor roll-call divisions were recorded for the emergency preamble on Senate 2580. The clerk read title changes for several bills that had been altered by the committee during third reading.
These measures are private or special‑act style bills that create sick‑leave banks on behalf of named employees; the transcript records procedural advancement and adopted amendments but contains no floor debate on the substantive need for each bank.
