An Act mandating access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plans or programs provided by the public employer

Reported by Joint Committee on Financial Services · 68 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H4946 · Bill

10 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2026-01-23	House	Reported from the committee on Financial Services
2026-01-23	House	New draft of H1230
2026-01-23	House	Reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Health Care Financing
2026-04-15	House	Committee recommended bill ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-07-31	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H5631
2026-07-31	House	Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2026-07-31	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending
2026-07-31	House	Rules suspended
2026-07-31	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-07-31	House	New draft substituted, see H5631

1 amendments filed

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act mandating access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plans or programs provided by the public employer	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted

3 committee votes

Financial Services (J) · 2025-12-16 11:24 · Report as Redrafted

favorable · 11

Health Care Financing (J) · 2026-04-09 13:25 · Favorable Report

favorable · 13

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-07-31 10:45 · H.4946 “An Act mandating access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plans or programs provided by the public employer” as amended

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

Committee actions

Action	Committee
Redraft	Financial Services (J)
Favorable	Health Care Financing (J)
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)

Cosponsors

In the order filed.

Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.