STAND. COM. REP. NO.  984-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2045

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2045, 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 the early detection of colorectal cancer and to assist individuals who have been diagnosed with colorectal cancer by:

(1)  Establishing a two-year Hawaii Colorectal Cancer Screening Awareness Pilot Project, to be administered by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, using the Hawaii Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program as a model;

(2)  Requiring the Department of Health to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the convening of the 2015 Regular Session on the efficacy of the pilot program and the expenditure of funds for the pilot program; and

(3)  Appropriating funds for the first year of the pilot program.

The Department of Health, Hawaii Medical Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, The Queen's Medical Center, and an individual supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2150, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity, consistency, 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. 2045, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2045, S.D. 2, 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