House advances sick-leave bank measures for two named state employees; one bill enacted

The Massachusetts House of Representatives on an informal session day advanced two bills to establish sick-leave banks for individual state employees: the House bill was ordered to a third reading and a Senate bill was passed to be enacted.

The Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling recommended scheduling a House bill “establishing a sick leave bank for Jato Charlatan, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation,” identified in the record as House No. 4182. Representative Wong of Saugus moved to suspend Rule 7A to allow immediate consideration; the motion was approved by voice vote and the House ordered the bill to a third reading.

Separately, the House took up Senate No. 2508, “an act establishing a sick leave bank for Andrew Saterra, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth.” Under the state constitution a separate vote on the emergency preamble was required; monitors reported three voting in the affirmative and zero in the negative and the emergency preamble was adopted. The full House then passed the Senate bill to be enacted by voice vote.

These actions were procedural votes on individual, employee-specific bills. The record shows motions to suspend rules and voice votes; no debate or amendment text is recorded in the transcript provided.

Representatives who moved the procedural suspensions and actions appear in the transcript as Representative Wong (Saugus) and Representative Owens (Watertown) in connection with suspension motions and taking up bills. The transcript does not include further debate text or statements from the named employees, nor does it specify legislative findings beyond the bill titles and bill numbers.

The House recessed and reconvened multiple times during these steps; the record shows the bills moving forward through the informal-session procedures recorded in the transcript.