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House approves sick-leave bank bills for individual employees; other petitions referred to committee
Summary
The House passed measures to create sick-leave banks for named employees of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and recorded referrals of other petitions — including one for a Suffolk County Sheriff's Office employee — to the appropriate committees, the clerk said.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed bills establishing sick-leave banks for specified state employees and referred several related petitions to committee during the floor session, the clerk announced.
The House approved final passage of bills described in the record as House No. 4161, "an act establishing a sick leave bank for Mark Cateman, an employee of the Department of Transportation," and House No. 4104, "an act establishing a sick leave bank for Daniel Yender, an employee of the Department of Transportation." For each bill the clerk asked for a vote on the emergency preamble and then on final passage; the reading records the required division tallies and states the emergency preambles were adopted and the bills were passed to be enacted.
Other petitions were read into the record and referred. A petition from the Senate, read as "A petition of Kelly A. Dooner," requested legislation to establish a sick-leave bank for Gregory Baker, an employee of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office; the clerk announced that petition was referred, on suspension of Joint Rule 12, to the Committee on Public Service. The committee on rules also listed petitions referring a sick-leave bank for Carlos Borges, an employee of the Department of Correction, to the Committee on Public Service.
The transcript records the procedural counts used during the House division votes. For one emergency-preamble roll call the clerk recorded divisions as: "First division 1, second division 1, third division 0, fourth division 1," and stated, "In this matter, 3 members have been voted in the affirmative, none of the negative; the emergency preambles adopted." For another bill the clerk recorded a separate set of division tallies and stated the emergency preamble was adopted. The transcript does not include debate on the merits of the sick-leave banks, nor does it record remarks from the petitioners or the employees named in the bills.
The actions recorded are formal procedural steps taken on the House floor; they do not, in the transcript, include substantive discussion of eligibility, duration, or funding of the sick-leave banks beyond the bill titles and the committee referrals noted in the record.
