STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2189

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2423

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2423 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for the Hawaii colorectal cancer screening program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from HMSA and the American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific, Inc.  Your Committee received comments from the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that one of the most efficient ways to detect precancerous growths is through screening and that the Hawaii colorectal cancer screening program will increase the likelihood of early detection, which is critical to a positive treatment outcome.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2423 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 


Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

 

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair