STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3309

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2039

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program for breast and cervical cancer screening, education, treatment, and outreach services.  

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health and the American Cancer Society - Cancer Action Network.

 

     Your Committee finds that breast and cervical cancer screening is essential to a woman's health.  The Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program has not only helped to detect numerous invasive breast and cervical cancers for women who lack adequate insurance coverage, but has also promoted women's health by providing essential screening, diagnostic, and treatment services.  Your Committee believes that this measure will further the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program's mission to provide breast and cervical cancer screening to medically underserved women and continue the program's success in working collaboratively with healthcare professionals to provide the highest quality breast and cervical cancer screening.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

(2)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair