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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Breast and Lung Cancer Screening - Coverage Requirements"
description: "Health Insurance - Breast and Lung Cancer Screening - Coverage Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1259"
citation: "Maryland HB 1259 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Fennell", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7ce639e-b849-42f7-b540-3f0630ea67a4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1259?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "c0be4e421b8da9578b7dd8bb245adbaaa01a68c1ab40745847a3dc8e64afbc48"
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 1259 (2024) — Health Insurance - Breast and Lung Cancer Screening - Coverage Requirements
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Breast and Lung Cancer Screening - Coverage Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_868_hb1259t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Breast and Lung Cancer Screening - Coverage Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1259f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance - Breast and Lung Cancer Screening - Coverage Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1259t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1232** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 868 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7ce639e-b849-42f7-b540-3f0630ea67a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).