STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2650

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2045

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2045, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PILOT PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for a two-year colorectal cancer screening awareness pilot program to be administered by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Human Services.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the Hawaii Medical Association, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that a screening program will increase detections of colorectal cancer at an early state, which in turn improves chances for survival and decreases mortality rates.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Clarifying that the contents of the report to the Legislature shall also include the efficacy of the pilot program, as well as fund expenditures;

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

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2045, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2045, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair