STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1016

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 385

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 385, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Health Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program to continue breast and cervical cancer screening; diagnostic, education, and outreach services; and treatment referrals.

The Queen's Health Systems, Susan G. Komen Hawaii, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, and two individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to facilitate further discussion; and

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $100,000 for each year of the 2015-2017 Fiscal Biennium for the 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 S.B. No. 385, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 385, S.D. 1, 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