STAND. COM. REP. NO.815

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1241

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1241 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the law requiring licensed hospitals to offer uterine cytologic examinations for cancer to female in-patients twenty years of age or older.

Your Committee finds that advances in obstetrics and gynecology, oncology (i.e., the study of cancer), and cytology (i.e., the study of cells) over the last thirty years have made in-patient uterine cytologic examinations for cancer unnecessary.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1241 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair