Bill Text: HI SB199 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Colorectal Cancer Screening Pilot Program; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-26 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-13 4:30PM in conference room 229. [SB199 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB199-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 697

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 199

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 199, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PILOT PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a colorectal cancer screening pilot program to promote the early detection of colorectal cancer.

 

     The Queen's Health Systems and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network submitted written comments in support of this measure.  Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee understands that approximately half of all individuals for whom colorectal cancer screening is recommended do not follow through with obtaining the screening.  Your Committee also understands that most people can obtain a colorectal cancer screening at no additional cost through Medicaid or through their health plan, due to provisions in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that require health plans to provide complete coverage for various preventative services.  Accordingly, your Committee finds that it would be more effective and beneficial to fund a program to raise awareness of colorectal cancer screening than to fund the actual screenings.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by

 

(1)  Changing the focus and amending the name of the pilot program to the "Hawaii colorectal cancer screening awareness pilot program" and making conforming amendments;

 

(2)  Deleting provisions requiring the Department of Health to provide colorectal cancer screenings;

 

(3)  Requiring the Department of Health to provide referral services for individuals diagnosed with colorectal cancer;

 

(4)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount;

 

(5)  Changing the reporting and repeal dates to reflect a two-year pilot program;

 

(6)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on the measure; and

 

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

 

     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. 199, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 199, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair