STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1661-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 3185

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3185, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to help protect women from breast and cervical cancer by making changes to the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program, including:

     (1)  Changing its name to the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (Program);

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Human Services (DHS) to collaborate with the Department of Health (DOH) to provide screening, education, and outreach, regardless of a woman's eligibility for Medicaid coverage;

     (3)  Requiring DHS to transfer $150,000 from its funds to DOH for cervical and breast cancer screening, education, and outreach; and

     (4)  Requiring DOH and DHS to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the expenditure of funds for the Program.

     The Hawaii Chapter – American Physical Therapy Association, American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific, Inc., and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  DHS and DOH provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsbstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 3185, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3185, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair