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House passes sick-leave bank bill for Worcester County sheriff’s employee; petition for separate bank referred to committee
Summary
The House passed House No. 4103 on third reading to establish a sick-leave bank for Steven Forget, an employee of the Worcester County Sheriff's Office. Separately, the House suspended Joint Rule 12 to refer a petition by Carol A. Faiola seeking a sick-leave bank for Esther Udrafwa to the Committee on Public Service.
The House passed House No. 4103 on third reading, a bill to establish a sick-leave bank for Steven Forget, an employee of the Worcester County Sheriff's Office. The passage was taken by voice vote and the chair announced, “The ayes have it.”
The action followed the release of House No. 4103 by the Committee on Bills on Third Reading. Earlier in the session the House also suspended Joint Rule 12 on a petition from Carol A. Faiola requesting legislation to establish a sick-leave bank for Esther Udrafwa, an employee of the Department of Mental Health, and sent that petition to the Committee on Public Service for consideration.
The developments represent two separate personnel-related legislative items on the House floor: one resolved by passage to be engrossed and one referred for committee review. The transcript does not include roll-call tallies or details of the bill’s specific eligibility criteria or administration; those provisions were not stated on the floor in the recorded remarks.
Procedural notes: the Committee on Bills on Third Reading released House No. 4103 for floor action, and the Committee on Rules was involved in suspending rules to permit consideration of the petition. The transcript records voice votes with the chair saying the ayes carried on both the rules suspension and the bill passage. No amendments, movers, seconds, or recorded individual votes were included in the session excerpt.
