STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2190

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2572

 

 

 

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. 2572 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.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program screens over a thousand people every year and that the early detection and treatment of breast and cervical cancer can lead to lower costs for overall treatment as well as an increased likelihood for 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. 2572 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