RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.
Report Title:  Right to Farm; Counties
Description:  Amends Hawaii’s Right to Farm Act to ensure that counties cannot enact laws, ordinances, or resolutions to limit the rights of farmers and ranchers to engage in agricultural practices.
Companion:  SB986
Package: None
Current Referral:  AGR, JUD
Introducer(s): ONISHI, AQUINO, BELATTI, CHOY, CULLEN, HAR, HASHEM, ICHIYAMA, ITO, LUKE, MATSUMOTO, MCDERMOTT, MIZUNO, NAKASHIMA, NISHIMOTO, OSHIRO, POUHA, SAIKI, SAY, TAKAYAMA, THIELEN, TSUJI, TUPOLA, WARD, WOODSON, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Brower, Cachola, Evans, Fukumoto Chang, Kong, McKelvey, Morikawa, Ohno, Souki

/12/2015 H Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with Representative(s) Jordan, Keohokalole, Oshiro, San Buenaventura, Tupola voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Creagan, Ing, Kawakami, LoPresti, Lowen, Matsumoto, McKelvey, Thielen voting no (8) and Representative(s) C. Lee excused (1).

ThielenContact: repthielen@capitol.hawaii.gov

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