STAND. COM. REP. NO.  106-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2039

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2039 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to continue breast and cervical cancer screening, education, treatment, and outreach services through the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program by appropriating funds for this program.

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, The Queen's Health Systems, Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, Citizens for Equal Rights, Hawaii Women's Coalition, and two individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Health submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Deleting the amount of the appropriation;

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

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

Should this measure be deliberated by the Committee on Finance, your Committee requests that it consider the appropriation amount of $100,000 for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2039, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair