STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1532

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 199

      S.D. 2

      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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 199, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PILOT PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to facilitate early detection of colorectal cancer and assist individuals who have been diagnosed with it by establishing the two-year Hawaii Colorectal Cancer Screening Awareness Pilot Program and appropriating an unspecified amount of funds for its establishment.

 

     The Department of Health, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, and Hawaii Medical Association testified in support of this measure.  The Attorney General and The Queen's Health Systems provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 199, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 199, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair