Bill Text: HI SCR4 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-04 - (H) Referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 59 [SCR4 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR4-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3082

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 4

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 4 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO ESTABLISH A STATE HEALTH PLAN INITIATIVE TO REDUCE THE OCCURRENCES OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE IN HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Health to establish a state health initiative to reduce the occurrences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, the Hawaii COPD Coalition, and one individual. 

 

     Your Committee finds that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the third leading cause of death in the United States, killing more than one hundred twenty thousand persons a year, or one person every four minutes.  In 2010 alone, this disease cost the United States an estimated $50,000,000,000 in direct and indirect expenses.  Your Committee also finds that though this disease is progressive, it is also preventable and treatable, though early screening and detection are critical.  Consequently, in order to reduce the State's future expenditures on health costs and to improve the overall wellbeing of the residents of the State, a preventive measure to reduce the occurrences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Hawaii is necessary.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 4 and recommends its adoption.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair