Senate approves sick-leave bank for Department of Elementary and Secondary Education employee (S.2799)

The Massachusetts Senate adopted an emergency preamble and passed an act establishing a sick-leave bank for an employee of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education identified in the bill as Jeffrey Asinthe (Senate No. 2799). The presiding officer put the question on the emergency preamble and senators approved it; later the Senate voted to pass the bill and ordered it to be signed by the president and laid before the governor for her approbation.

The measure was considered under the Senate's routine procedures for final passage and was moved through the chamber without recorded roll-call tallies in the transcript beyond the presiding officer's announcement that "the ayes have it." The bill was described in the chamber as an act to establish a sick-leave bank for the named employee; the transcript does not provide additional details about the sick-leave bank's terms, contribution mechanisms, or effective date.

Next steps: the bill will be signed by the Senate president and transmitted to the governor for approval. The transcript records the bill number (S.2799) and that the emergency preamble and final passage were adopted; no further legislative amendments or implementation instructions appear in the recorded proceedings.