STAND. COM. REP. NO.  336-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2813

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2813 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GYNECOLOGY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to require a gynecologist to give patients with gynecologic cancer with metastasis in the abdominal area the option of having a gynecologist or a gynecologist oncologist perform the surgery.  The Department of Health must submit to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2012, a report, which must include:

 

     (1)  Statistics on the number of surgeries requiring a gynecologic oncologist to operate;

 

     (2)  Statistics on the number of cases where the cancer metastasized outside the reproductive organs but was not diagnosed prior to surgery; and

 

     (3)  Any recommendations to improve methods and policies pertaining to improved protocols in gynecologic cancer surgery.


     A concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Hawaii Section, opposed this measure.  The Hawaii Medical Service Association provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2813, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2813, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair