STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2227

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2447

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2447 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation of $100,000 to the Department of Health for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, American Cancer Society, The Queen's Health Systems, Planned Parenthood, and four individuals.

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Health's breast and cervical cancer control program provides critical screening and early detection services to women who are at risk, uninsured, underinsured, and rarely or never screened.  Your Committee further finds that maintaining adequate funding will preserve a vital safety net for thousands of women in Hawaii who lack access to essential screening, diagnostic, and treatment services.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2447, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2447, 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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JOSH GREEN, Chair