Maryland legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Maryland SB579: Counties - No-Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer and Retired Volunteer Firefighters
Status: Signed into law, April 28, 2026
Requiring counties in which a volunteer fire company is located to offer no-cost preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines to volunteer firefighters volunteering and retired volunteer firefighters who volunteered with the volunteer fire company; authorizing a county to satisfy the requirement by providing a certain annual examination or applying for a certain grant; requiring the volunteer fire companies to maintain a list of volunteer firefighters and retired volunteer firefighters; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Counties - No-Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer and Retired Volunteer Firefighters FOR the purpose of requiring counties in which a volunteer fire company is located to offer no-cost preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines to volunteer firefighters volunteering and retired volunteer firefighters who volunteered with the volunteer fire company; authorizing a county to satisfy the requirement by providing a certain annual examination or applying for a certain grant…
From the enrolled text, May 5, 2026:
AN ACT concerning Counties - No-Cost Preventive Cancer Screenings for Volunteer and Retired Volunteer Firefighters FOR the purpose of requiring counties in which a volunteer fire company is located to offer no-cost preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines to volunteer firefighters volunteering and retired volunteer firefighters who volunteered with the volunteer fire company; authorizing a county to satisfy the requirement by providing a certain annual examination or applying for a certain grant; requiring the volunteer fire companies to maintain a certain list of volunteer firefighters and retired volunteer firefighters and provide the list, annually and on request, to the county in which the volunteer fire company is located; requiring the counties to maintain the list provided; and generally relating to the provision of no-cost preventive cancer screenings for volunteer and retired volunteer firefighters by counties. BY adding to Article - Local Government Section 9-115 Annotated Code of Maryland (2013 Volume and 2025 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: Article - Local Government 9-115. (A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED. (2) "RETIRED VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS A RETIRED FIREFIGHTER WHO: (I) VOLUNTEERED WITH A VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY IN A COUNTY; (II) WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN FIRE …