STAND. COM. REP. NO.  427

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 407

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 407 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support early detection, screening, and treatment of breast and cervical cancer by appropriating $100,000 for each year of the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program under the Department of Health.

 

     The Queen's Health Systems, Hawaii Medical Association, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, Hawaii Medical Service Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate continued discussion.

 

     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, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 407, 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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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair