Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 118, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to establish a Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program for individuals who are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer by the Hawaii Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program and are either:

The Office of the Lieutenant Governor, State Health Planning and Development Agency, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Medical Service Association, Hawaii Breast & Cervical Cancer Treatment Fund Coalition, Hawaii Society of Clinical Oncology, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, Hawaii Women Lawyers, Papa Ola Lokahi, and several concerned individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.

The Department of Human Services and Department of Health supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 118, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 118, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.