STAND. COM. REP. NO.  766

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 407

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 407, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support early detection, screening, and treatment of breast and cervical cancer by appropriating $100,000 for each year of the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program under the Department of Health.

The Hawaii Medical Association, The Queen's Medical Center, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the amount appropriated for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program under the Department of Health from $100,000 for each year of the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium to an unspecified sum; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive 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 H.B. No. 407, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 407, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair