STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2712

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2040

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2040 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to save lives and improve the quality of life for individuals affected by cancer.

 

     Specifically, this measure seeks to enhance the quality of life of individuals affected by cancer by helping to increase community participation in clinical trials, increase the research utility of the Hawaii Tumor Registry, allow comprehensive monitoring of the efficacy of cancer screening and cancer vaccination activities, enhance the quality of life of cancer survivors, and to stimulate awareness of the cancer information services and local community cancer prevention efforts.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii and the Hawaii Tumor Registry.  The Department of Health, Hawaii Medical Association, and Kaiser Permanente submitted testimony supporting the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that this is an important measure that would enable citizens of Hawaii the right to make choices regarding their own health care and give options on whether or not to participate in cancer research studies.  Your Committee further finds that communities would benefit from better relations between physicians and researchers.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to encourage further discussions on this important measure.

 

     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. 2040, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2040, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair