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HI SB2241

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/4/2014

Primary Sponsor

Maile Shimabukuro

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Origin

Senate

2014 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes a new "fourth class" land classification for taro lands on public property, prohibiting district boundary amendments for lands classified this way.

  • Prohibits the Board of Land and Natural Resources from acquiring or disturbing existing taro-growing systems, ancient wetland taro lands, or structural elements (walls, terraces, irrigation ditches) of ancient wetland taro systems on undeveloped state lands for development projects.

  • Permits restoration, rehabilitation, and improvement of walls, terraces, or supporting structures for lōʻi taro fields as an allowed use in agricultural districts.

  • Adds "growth and perpetuation of traditional Hawaiian crops" as an objective in the State Planning Act for agricultural economic planning.

  • Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources, working with the Taro Security and Purity Task Force, to create an inventory of lands classified as fourth class taro lands; effective date July 1, 2030.

Legislative Description

Agricultural Lands; Taro Land Protection

Last Action

Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-14 9:45AM in conference room 224.

4/24/2014

Committee Referrals

Agriculture3/19/2014
Water & Land3/14/2014
Agriculture3/6/2014
Agriculture1/17/2014

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