republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-459.md

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Bill	Counties - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James "Jimmy" Malone Act)	Counties - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James "Jimmy" Malone Act)	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 459	Maryland HB 459 (2025)	bill		enacted	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	3	12	1	2025-01-20	2025-05-20	openstates	ocd-bill/0a045747-0388-4405-9909-edf72afa9aab	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0459?ys=2025RS&search=True	06cbb07a53a1d9a08b31022448a29f8bb7bdd83b6f3061d533f071ee16308d7c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. First - Health Insurance - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James "Jimmy" Malone Act) (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Counties - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James "Jimmy" Malone Act) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/0a045747-0388-4405-9909-edf72afa9aab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).