STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1226-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2686

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2686, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to encourage the development of technology to detect and treat cancer by:

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

(2) Appropriating funds to the Fund.

Science and Technology International testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2686, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2686, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair