---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counties - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James \"Jimmy\" Malone Act)"
description: "Counties - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James \"Jimmy\" Malone Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 459"
citation: "Maryland HB 459 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pruski", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Stein", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a045747-0388-4405-9909-edf72afa9aab"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0459?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "06cbb07a53a1d9a08b31022448a29f8bb7bdd83b6f3061d533f071ee16308d7c"
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 HB 459 (2025) — Counties - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James "Jimmy" Malone Act)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Counties - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James "Jimmy" Malone Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_655_hb0459t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James "Jimmy" Malone Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0459f.pdf)
3. **Third - Counties - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James "Jimmy" Malone Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0459t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a045747-0388-4405-9909-edf72afa9aab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).