STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1441-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2049

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2049, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANCER RESEARCH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to determine the reasons that Hawaii has the highest incidence of liver and bile duct cancer in the country.

The University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring that the appropriation be matched on a one-to-one basis by federal funds.

Although the intent of this measure is laudable, your Committee is concerned that the appropriation request did not flow through the regular channels of governance at the University of Hawaii. However, because this study has been afforded private grant opportunities, it is worthy of state support and requiring a one-to-one matching requirement from federal funds would augment the moneys appropriated by this measure. Your Committee further notes that the proponents of this measure may wish to work to include the appropriation contained in this measure in the Executive Supplemental Budget instead.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2049, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2049, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair