STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2667

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2447

       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. 2447, S.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 moneys to the Department of Health for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network 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 to 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)  Changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified sum;

(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, consistency, and style.

     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. 2447, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2447, 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