STAND. COM. REP. NO. 909

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 407

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 407, H.D. 2, 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 for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program to continue its valuable services of screening, educating, providing treatment as necessary, and conducting outreach on breast and cervical cancer.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health; American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network; Hawaii Medical Association; The Queen's Health Systems; Planned Parenthood of Hawaii; and one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that over the past few years, the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program has screened an average of 1,275 women every year.  The program is essential in early detection of breast and cervical cancer and allows health providers an opportunity for early intervention and cancer treatment.  Your Committee further finds that early intervention and treatment are essential to providing life-saving treatments and also save substantial sums of money that would otherwise be spent in treating advanced stage cancer.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval.

 

     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 H.B. No. 407, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 407, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, 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, Chair