§302A-405.6 Farm to school meals. (a) The department shall ensure that by January 1, 2030, fresh local agricultural products and local value-added processed, agricultural, or food products shall constitute a minimum of thirty per cent of the total food purchased during each calendar year, as measured by the per cent of total food cost.
(b) The department shall submit an annual report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session, beginning with the regular session of 2022, containing the following information:
(c) For the purposes of this section:
"Fresh local agricultural products" means fruits, vegetables, nuts, coffee, eggs, poultry and poultry products, livestock and livestock products, milk and milk products, aquacultural and maricultural products, and horticultural products that are one hundred per cent grown, raised, and harvested in Hawaii.
"Local value-added processed, agricultural, or food products" means at least fifty-one per cent of the product's primary agricultural product shall be grown, raised, and harvested in Hawaii.
"Locally sourced products" means fresh local agricultural products or local value-added processed, agricultural, or food products.
"Primary agricultural product" means the major agricultural product in a processed or value-added agricultural or food product. [L 2021, c 175, pt of §2; am L 2025, c 137, §3]