Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1241 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal the law requiring hospitals to offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer detection to every female inpatient 20 years-of-age or older unless the exam is contraindicated by the attending physician or was performed within the previous year.

The Healthcare Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure. The Department of Health (DOH) supported the intent of this measure. The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, and a concerned individual opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that the requirement for hospitals to offer a uterine cytologic examination was established almost 30 years ago when the exam was rarely given. The examination is now part of routine gynecological examinations.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to facilitate further discussion.

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. 1241, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1241, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.