H.B. 611 Summary

• Defines "customary and traditional subsistence farming" as farming conducted by Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners for direct personal, family, or community consumption, and includes this as a protected activity under Hawaii's Right to Farm Act.

• Expands the definition of "farming operation" to explicitly include customary and traditional subsistence farming as a recognized agricultural use protected from nuisance claims.

• Clarifies that crop cultivation, animal husbandry, game and fish propagation, and aquaculture in agricultural districts may be conducted for either economic use or customary and traditional subsistence farming.

• Adds perpetuation of customary and traditional subsistence farming as a state policy objective under the Hawaii State Planning Act's agricultural objectives.

• Takes effect July 1, 3000.