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SENATE BILL 849
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CF HB 757
By: Senator Guzzone
Introduced and read first time: January 28, 2025
Assigned to: Budget and Taxation and Finance
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
Senate action: Adopted
Read second time: February 24, 2025
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening 2
Technologies Program – Funding 3
FOR the purpose of altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual 4
budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening 5
Technologies Program; authorizing the Secretary to use up to a certain percentage 6
of Program funds to support academic medical research centers for certain purposes; 7
and generally relating to the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative 8
Cancer Screening Technologies Program. 9
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 10
Article – Health – General 11
Section 13–4001 12
Annotated Code of Maryland 13
(2023 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 14
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 15
Article – Health – General 16
Section 13–4006 17
Annotated Code of Maryland 18
(2023 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 19
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 20
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 21
2 SENATE BILL 849
Article – Health – General 1
13–4001. 2
In this subtitle, “Program” means the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter 3
Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program. 4
13–4006. 5
(a) (1) For fiscal years 2021 through 2024, the Governor shall include at least 6
$100,000 in the annual budget for the Program. 7
(2) For fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Governor may 8
include at least [$500,000] $3,000,000 in the annual budget for the Program. 9
(b) Appropriations and expenditures made for the purpose of implementing the 10
Program, including the use of any funds received by a person under any component of the 11
Program, are subject to audit by the Office of Legislative Audits as provided in § 2–1220 of 12
the State Government Article. 13
(C) THE SECRETARY MAY USE UP TO 20% OF PROGRAM FUNDS TO SUPP ORT 14
ACADEMIC MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTERS, INCLUDING THE UNIVERSITY OF 15
MARYLAND INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH COMPUTING, IN THE COLLECTION , ANALYSIS, 16
AND PROCESSING OF PROGRAM OUTCOME DATA FOR THE PURPOSES OF ASSESSING, 17
MAXIMIZING, AND IMPROVING THE EF FECTIVENESS AND CLIN ICAL UTILITY OF THE 18
CANCER SCREENING FUN DED BY THE PROGRAM. 19
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 20
1, 2025. It shall remain effective for a period of 5 years and, at the end of June 30, 2030, 21
this Act, with no further action required by the General Assembly, shall be abrogated and 22
of no further force and effect. 23
Approved:
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Governor.
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President of the Senate.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.