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House approves special acts establishing sick-leave banks for two public employees
Summary
The Massachusetts House passed separate acts creating sick-leave banks for Jada Charleton, a Massachusetts Department of Transportation employee, and for Andrew Sattera, a trial-court employee; both measures moved through suspensions of rules and were enacted after procedural votes, including an emergency preamble for the trial-court bill.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives during a floor session passed two separate acts establishing sick-leave banks for named public employees.
The measures — House bill No. 4182 to establish a sick-leave bank for Jada Charleton of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and Senate bill No. 2508 to establish a sick-leave bank for Andrew Sattera, an employee of the trial court of the Commonwealth — were advanced through procedural votes after members voted to suspend rules to take up the measures.
The committee on steering, quality and scheduling had recommended that the House bill establishing a sick-leave bank for Jada Charleton be scheduled for consideration. Mister Wong of Saugus moved suspension of rule 7A; the motion passed and the bill was placed on second reading as House No. 4182. The House voted to order the bill to a third reading and later passed the measure “to be enacted.”
Senate bill 2508 establishing a sick-leave bank for Andrew Sattera was called up under the constitution’s separate-vote requirement for emergency preambles. Members voting in favor of the emergency preamble were counted across divisions; the counts reported in the session produced three votes in the affirmative and none in the negative, and the emergency preamble was adopted. The House then passed the engrossed bill to be enacted.
All floor votes on both measures were recorded as the membership voice votes recorded in the transcript (ayes/ayes and no opposed responses). The transcript shows no extended debate or amendment on the measures; the recorded activity was procedural: committee scheduling, suspension of rules, readings and final passage.
The House adjourned following completion of its business.
