STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 968-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2686

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Economic Development and Business Concerns, to which was referred S.B. No. 2686, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote technological advances in detecting and treating cancer by:

(1) Emphasizing the importance of early cancer detection;

(2) Specifying that the Cancer Detection Development Revolving Fund (Fund) should also be used for treatment; and

(3) Appropriating funds to the Fund.

Science and Technology International testified in support of this measure.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying further that the Fund be used for treatment in addition to detection, including changing the name of the Fund to the Cancer Detection and Treatment Development Revolving Fund;

(2) Inserting an appropriation amount of $1 to encourage further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Economic Development and Business Concerns that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2686, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2686, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Economic Development and Business Concerns,

____________________________ BRIAN SCHATZ, Chair		____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair