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House suspends rule to refer one sick-leave petition and passes bill creating sick-leave bank for sheriff's employee
Summary
The Massachusetts House suspended Joint Rule 12 to refer a petition seeking a sick-leave bank for a Department of Mental Health employee to the Committee on Public Service, and it passed House 4103 to create a sick-leave bank for a Worcester County Sheriff's Office employee; both actions were procedural and require further steps.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives suspended Joint Rule 12 to send a petition requesting a sick-leave bank for a Department of Mental Health employee to the Committee on Public Service, and the House passed House 4103, a bill to establish a sick-leave bank for an employee of the Worcester County Sheriff's Office.
The Committee on Rules, acting jointly for both branches, reported recommending that “Joint Rule 12 be suspended on a petition of Carol A. Faiola for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Esther Adrafo, an employee of the Department of Mental Health,” and the House voted to suspend the rule and refer the petition to the Committee on Public Service. The transcript records the suspension without a recorded roll-call tally; the presiding chair announced, “Joint rule 12 is suspended.”
Separately, the clerk read House 4103, described in the reading as “an act establishing a sick leave bank for Stephen Forget, an employee of the Worcester County Sheriff's Office.” After the reading, the House proceeded to a voice vote; the chair announced, “The ayes have it. Bill is passed to be engrossed.” The transcript does not record the number of ayes or nays.
Both items in the transcript are procedural steps: suspension of a rule to allow committee referral of a petition, and passage of a bill to be engrossed. The petition referred to the Committee on Public Service will require committee consideration before any floor action; the engrossment of House 4103 is a step in the legislative process that precedes any further readings or, if approved, enactment.
The transcript does not include debate on either item, does not specify sponsors or movers for the motions to suspend the rule or to pass the bill, and does not record roll-call vote counts. The record also does not include text of any proposed sick-leave bank statute beyond the short reading of House 4103 or details about how either bank would be administered or funded.
Next steps indicated by the record: the petition will be considered by the Committee on Public Service; House 4103, having been passed to be engrossed, will proceed through the usual legislative stages for consideration and potential enactment.
