STAND. COM. REP. NO. 32

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 156

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 156 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CERVICAL AND BREAST CANCER SCREENING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation for breast and cervical cancer screening to the Department of Health to reach more women who are eligible to be screened under the Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific, Inc., Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, and Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii. 

 

     Your Committee finds that, excluding skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer-related death.  Many of these deaths, which will occur disproportionately among women of racial and ethnic minority and low-income groups, could be avoided by making cancer screening services available to all women at risk through added appropriations, such as the one included in this measure.

 

     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. 156 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