HI SR46

Requests the Department of Accounting and General Services to participate in the Hawaii Prostate Cancer Coalition's initiative to "Light the State Capitol Blue" during a portion of the 2013 Regular Session.

Requests the Comptroller to permit a banner encouraging men to speak with their physicians about prostate cancer to be displayed on the state capitol grounds during September 2013.

Acknowledges that prostate cancer is the second most common cause of male cancer-related death in the United States, with an estimated 800 diagnoses and 110 deaths expected in Hawaii during 2013.

References the President's 2012 National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month proclamation and Governor Neil Abercrombie's September 2012 declaration of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in Hawaii.

Notes that Honolulu Hale was lit blue during September 2012 following the Honolulu City Council's adoption of Resolution No. 12-174.