STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2254

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3367

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3367 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish an Early Lung Cancer Screening Task Force to research the steps and resources necessary to increase early lung cancer screening in Hawaii.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System, Department of Health, American Lung Association in Hawaii, Hawai‘i Primary Care Association, Hawaii Medical Association, Papa Ola Lōkahi, and three individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the State Procurement Office.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii ranks last in the nation for the early diagnosis of lung cancer. The rate of new lung cancer cases in the State is one hundred twenty—six per one hundred thousand among native Hawaiians, dramatically higher than the rates among indigenous peoples nationally and among Caucasians in Hawaii. Although lung cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, it is approximately ninety percent preventable. Thus, there is a need to research, plan, and implement early lung cancer screening in Hawaii. This measure establishes the Early Lung Cancer Screening Task Force (Task Force) to accomplish these goals.

Your Committee acknowledges the testimony of the Hawaii Primary Care Association, which requested to be represented on the Task Force.

Therefore, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring that a representative from the Hawaii Primary Care Association be selected to sit on the Task Force; and

(2) 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. 3367, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3367, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair