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Committee considers codifying Hoosier Homestead program and limited remonstrance for eminent domain
Summary
House Bill 1265 would put the Hoosier Homestead Farm recognition program into statute and create a narrow, local remonstrance process for family farms facing fee-simple condemnation; the committee heard testimony from long-standing farm families and ISDA, and the sponsor indicated technical amendments are forthcoming.
A sponsor presented House Bill 1265 to put the Hoosier Homestead Farm Program into statute and to create a limited local remonstrance process for homestead farms facing fee-simple condemnation under eminent domain.
The sponsor told the committee the bill would formally codify the ceremonial Hoosier Homestead Award (created in 1976), require ISDA to maintain an electronic registry of homestead farms and allow a homestead farm that faces a fee-simple taking to request review by the local legislative body before condemnation proceeds. "1265 simply gives a homestead farm the right to make 1 final appeal to…
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