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Senate refers two sick-leave bank petitions for individual employees to committees
Summary
The Senate took up three separate petitions to establish employee sick-leave banks — including House Bill 4103 for a Worcester County Sheriff's Office employee and a petition for a Department of Mental Health employee — and referred them to relevant committees after suspending rules for immediate consideration.
The Massachusetts Senate considered multiple petitions to establish sick-leave banks for individual public employees and referred the matters to committee after suspending rules to consider them forthwith.
House Bill 4103, establishing a sick-leave bank for Steven Forget, an employee of the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, was received from the House as "passed to be engrossed." Senator Rand moved to suspend rules to allow immediate consideration; the motion passed and the bill was ordered to a reading.
A separate House petition from Carol A. Feola to establish a sick-leave bank for Esther Odofua, an employee of the Department of Mental Health, was presented under suspension of Joint Rule 12 and referred to the Committee on Public Service. The Senate suspended General Rule 12 to permit the referral.
The actions recorded in the transcript are procedural (rules suspensions and referrals) and do not themselves create or fund sick-leave banks. Further consideration, committee review and any final votes will determine whether a bank is established in each case.
