HB 611 Summary

• Adds "customary and traditional subsistence farming" conducted by Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners for personal, family, or community consumption as a new definition in Hawaii Revised Statutes Section 165-2 and includes it as a farming operation protected under the Hawaii Right to Farm Act.

• Amends Section 205-2 to clarify that cultivation of crops, animal husbandry, and aquaculture in agricultural districts may be conducted for either economic use or customary and traditional subsistence farming.

• Amends Section 205-4.5 to permit customary and traditional subsistence farming on Class A and B agricultural lands alongside other permitted agricultural uses.

• Adds perpetuation of customary and traditional subsistence farming as a policy objective under Hawaii's State Planning Act agricultural objectives in Section 226-7.

• Takes effect July 1, 3000.