STAND. COM. REP. NO.  148-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2141

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2141 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer among Hawaii's female youth caused by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus.  This bill appropriates unspecified sums to establish a program to:

 

(1)  Develop and provide free educational information to parents of female public school sixth graders on human papillomavirus vaccines that prevent cervical cancer; and

 

(2)  Make human papillomavirus immunizations available to these students.

 

The Department of Health supported the intent of this bill.

 

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, 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. 2141, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2141, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair