HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2039
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 2

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO CANCER.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that after Congress passed the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act in 1990, which led to the creation of cancer screening programs in all fifty states, the Hawaii breast and cervical cancer control program was established in 1993.  Since 1997, the Hawaii breast and cervical cancer control program has screened more than 7,600 women.

     Over the past few years, the program has screened approximately 1,275 women each year.  Despite the loss of one of its providers, Hawaii Medical Center, the program anticipates that it will continue screening between one thousand one hundred to one thousand two hundred women annually.

     The legislature further finds that according to the department of human services med-QUEST division, from July 2010 to June 2011, the State paid a total of $80,487.47 for eight women under the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program, which averages $10,060.93 per person.  Even though the amount of expenditures varies from quarter to quarter and year to year, and depends on the number and severity of each medical case, based on the number of women the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program has screened annually and the available data from the department of human services, the program needs $100,000 to provide comprehensive treatment for fiscal year 2014-2015.

     The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program to continue its valuable breast and cervical cancer screening, education, treatment, and outreach services.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2014-2015 for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.

 

 

Report Title:

Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (SD2)

 

 

 

The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.