HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5299        FILED ON: 12/17/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5127

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Stephen Costa, an employee of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the department of health and human services shall establish a sick leave bank for Stephen Costa, an employee of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission.  Any employee of the department may voluntarily contribute 1 or more sick, personal or vacation days to the sick leave bank for use by Stephen Costa.  Sick leave bank days shall not be used for absences unrelated to the illness or disability that necessitated the establishment of the sick leave bank as determined by the department of health and human services.  Whenever Stephen Costa terminates employment with the department or requests to dissolve the sick leave bank, any remaining time in the sick leave bank shall be transferred to the extended illness leave bank.