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Committee debate on S.45 centers on trespass language and farm definition thresholds
Summary
During a review of S.45 (a right‑to‑farm measure), committee members expressed strong disagreement over inserting trespass into the statute and questioned whether the bill's thresholds for defining a farm are too low.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewed S.45 on March 12 and debated whether the bill's immunity provisions should include trespass and whether the statutory threshold for what constitutes a farm is set appropriately.
One committee member warned that including trespass converts the bill from nuisance protection into addressing “a physical incursion” and said they “do not want trespass in the bill.” That speaker noted they had asked legislative counsel and found only three other states include trespass in similar…
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