STAND. COM. REP. 1465
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 1241
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1241, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER EXAMINATIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to eliminate unnecessary and impractical statutory requirements by repealing the provision that requires every hospital licensed by the State to offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer to every female in-patient, twenty years-of-age or over, unless contraindicated by the attending physician or unless the examination has been performed within the previous year.
Kaiser Permanente and Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children supported this bill. The Department of Health (DOH), Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, and Healthcare Association of Hawaii supported the intent of this bill. Planned Parenthood of Hawaii and a concerned citizen opposed this bill.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring cancer examinations to be part of a statewide Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan to be developed by DOH;
(2) Requiring DOH to work with other government agencies, health care providers, health insurers, and others to improve the overall rates of screening, early diagnosis, and treatment of cancer;
(3) Making this bill effective upon its approval; and
(4) Making other technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of consistency.
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. 1241, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1241, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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