STAND. COM. REP. NO.  742

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 373

 

 

 

 

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. 373 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MAMMOGRAPHY REPORTING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the detection of breast cancer by requiring health care facilities that perform mammography examinations to provide mammography reports and notification to their patients who are categorized as having dense breast tissue.

 

     Numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee notes that no health care facilities submitted testimony on this measure.

 

     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. 373 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair