STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2277

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3185

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3185 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide funding for breast and cervical cancer screening to the Department of Health to reach more women who are eligible to be screened under the Hawaii Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program.

     Specifically, this measure appropriates funds to the Department of Health for breast and cervical cancer screening.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the American Cancer Society.  The Department of Health submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee finds that the Legislature has appropriated funds to the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program established by the Department of Human Services pursuant to section 346-59.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  Your Committee further finds that, in addition to this treatment program, it is necessary to allow part of the funding to be used for breast and cervical cancer screening, education, and outreach by the Department of Health in order to reach more women who are eligible to be screened under the screening program and thereby be eligible to be treated under this treatment program.

     Your Committee amended this measure by:

     (1)  Renaming the program the Breast and Cervical Cancer Comprehensive Cancer Control Program;

     (2)  Amending section 346-59.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include breast and cervical cancer screening, education, and outreach by the Department of Health;

     (3)  Deleting the appropriation from the general revenues and inserting an appropriation provision that transfers funds from the Department of Human Services for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Comprehensive Cancer Control Program to the Department of Health; and

     (4)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     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 S.B. No. 3185, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3185, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair