STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1161-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 3185

      S.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3185, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

beg 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 American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific, Inc., and Hawaii Chapter – American Physical Therapy Association testified in support of this bill.  DHS and DOH supported the intent of this measure.

     Your Committees note that DHS and DOH need more time to find a viable solution to some of the issues contained in this bill and to work on an amended version of a bill or a memorandum of understanding.  Due to time constraints, your Committees are recommending passage of this bill, without amendments, to encourage further discussion and to allow the parties time to find an appropriate solution.  Your Committees may consider granting prior concurrence to future committees at a later time, upon DHS and DOH's arriving at a mutually acceptable agreement.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3185, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health,

____________________________ JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair

____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair