STAND. COM. REP. NO. 402-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2875

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2875 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote technological advances in detecting and treating cancer by:

(1) Emphasizing the importance of early cancer detection;

(2) Specifying that the Cancer Detection Development Revolving Fund (Fund) should also be used for treatment; and

(3) Appropriating funds to the Fund.

Science and Technology International testified in support of this measure. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Health opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying further that the Fund be used for treatment in addition to detection, including changing the name of the Fund to the Cancer Detection and Treatment Development Revolving Fund;

(2) Changing the administering agency of the Fund to the Department of Health;

(3) Reducing the appropriation amount to $1; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

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 H.B. No. 2875, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2875, 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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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair