STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2999

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2039

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Planned Parenthood, The Queen's Health Systems, Hawaii Medical Association, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program provides valuable screening for breast and cervical cancer to women in Hawaii.  Early diagnosis of breast and cervical cancer can help women seek the appropriate treatment needed, as well as identify any risk factors that may contribute to breast and cervical cancer.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2014; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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JOSH GREEN, Chair