HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

407

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to cancer.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that after Congress passed the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Act in 1990, which led to the creation of cancer screening programs in all fifty states, the legislature established the Hawaii breast and cervical cancer control program in 1997.  From 1997 to 2001, the Hawaii breast and cervical cancer control program screened approximately two thousand women.  Following the enactment of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000, P.L. 106-354, which allowed states to provide coverage for treatment costs of eligible women diagnosed through breast and cervical cancer screening programs through their respective state medicaid programs, the legislature established the breast and cervical cancer treatment program, now known as the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program, which is managed by the department of health.  Over the past few years, the program has screened approximately 1,275 women each year.  Despite the loss of one of its providers, Hawaii Medical Center, the program anticipates to continue screening between one thousand one hundred to one thousand two hundred women annually.

     The legislature further finds that according to the department of human services med-QUEST division, from July 2010 to June 2011, the State paid a total of $80,487.47 for eight women under the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program, which averages to $10,060.93 per person.  Even though the amount of expenditures varies from quarter to quarter and year to year and depends on the number and severity of each medical case, based on the number of women the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program has screened annually and the available data from the department of human services, $100,000 would be the estimated amount needed for comprehensive treatment in the State.

     The purpose of this Act 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.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $100,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2013-2014 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2014-2015 for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2013.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

_____________________________

 

 


 


 

Report Title:

Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates funds for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.

 

 

 

The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.