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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Counties - No-Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer and Retired Volunteer Firefighters"
+description: "Counties - No-Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer and Retired Volunteer Firefighters"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 579"
+citation: "Maryland SB 579 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Beidle", "Carozza", "Corderman", "Gallion", "Gile", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Hester", "Jackson", "Jennings", "Kramer", "Lam", "Mautz", "Ready", "Salling"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-02-04"
+last_action: "2026-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdd25206-d2fb-4f31-a002-d1181b082fa9"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0579?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "2a881621784f69a81b3a8ee48c637512f6faa8d40b16be30b651e65b6baf59c7"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland SB 579 (2026) — Counties - No-Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer and Retired Volunteer Firefighters
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Counties - No-Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer and Retired Volunteer Firefighters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_319_sb0579e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Counties - No-Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer and Retired Volunteer Firefighters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0579e.pdf)
+3. **First - Counties – No–Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer Firefighters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0579f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Counties - No-Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer and Retired Volunteer Firefighters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0579t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **41–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bailey — primary (person)
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Corderman — primary (person)
+- Gallion — primary (person)
+- Gile — primary (person)
+- Hayes — primary (person)
+- Hershey — primary (person)
+- Hester — primary (person)
+- Jackson — primary (person)
+- Jennings — primary (person)
+- Kramer — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- Mautz — primary (person)
+- Ready — primary (person)
+- Salling — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-12** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-20** Referred Health `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-24** Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-09** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 319 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdd25206-d2fb-4f31-a002-d1181b082fa9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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