STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1117

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 407

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 407, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, 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 to enable the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program to continue to provide services.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and Hawaii Pacific Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that the comprehensive breast and cervical control program provides invaluable services to women in the State.  This measure will permit the program to continue to conduct outreach activities relating to breast and cervical cancer and provide screening and treatment as necessary for women in the State.

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 407, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 407, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair