Bill Text: HI SB527 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB527 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB527-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 15

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 527

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 527 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 funds for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, The Queen's Medical Health Systems, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, the Hawaii Medical Association, and the Cancer Action Network.

 

     Your Committee finds that breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in Hawaii and is currently the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women.  Although breast cancer is not preventable, regular mammograms and clinical breast examinations are critical to early detection and improved survival.  Cervical cancer, on the other hand, is preventable and can be detected early through regular screening.  This measure provides necessary funding for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program to continue the critical screening, diagnostic, and treatment services that improve and save the lives of over 1,000 women every year.

 

     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. 527 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair