HI SB2926

Defines "prime farmland" as land best suited for food, feed, forage, fiber, and oilseed crops with high productivity and minimal resource inputs, and explicitly allows prime farmlands as a permitted use within agricultural districts.

Requires the land use commission to specifically consider preservation of prime farmlands and local food security when reviewing district boundary reclassification petitions, adding this as a formal decision-making criterion.

Prohibits the commission from removing prime farmlands from agricultural districts if the land has been used for agricultural purposes for at least two years before the petition is filed or has high capacity for intensive agricultural uses.

Restricts repeated petitions by prohibiting the commission from accepting boundary amendment petitions covering substantially the same request or land as previously denied within one year (with six-month minimum waiting period) unless significant new data is submitted, and prohibits resubmission within one year of voluntary withdrawal.

Designates prime farmlands as subject to state-level land use commission review rather than county-level review, placing them in the same regulatory category as conservation district lands and important agricultural lands greater than 15 acres.