Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 15 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the commitment of the Hawaii State Legislature to support the national goal of eliminating suffering and death due to cancer by the year 2015.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, the American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific, Inc., and eight individuals.

Your Committee finds that the goal of the National Cancer Institute to eliminate cancer-related death and suffering by 2015 can be attained with the cooperation and commitment of the Legislature, private and public organizations, and individuals. Your Committee further finds that cancer, through education and early detection, is becoming one of the most preventable of the life threatening diseases facing Americans today.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 15, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 15, S.D. 1.