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Committee hears bill to codify Hoosier Homestead program and add remonstrance against eminent domain
Summary
House Bill 1265 would put the Hoosier Homestead Farm recognition into statute, create a registry and a local remonstrance process for fee‑simple takings affecting eligible multi‑generation farms; ISDA testified neutrally and the committee held the bill for technical amendment.
Representative Green presented House Bill 1265, which would codify the Hoosier Homestead Farm program in statute, maintain an electronic registry of homestead farms, and give qualifying farms a limited process to remonstrate locally against fee‑simple condemnation actions.
The bill’s author said the Hoosier Homestead Award—created in 1976 to recognize family farms owned continuously for at least 100 years—has been largely ceremonial and that putting the program into statute would help preserve multi‑generational farms and provide a formal record. "House Bill 1265 simply gives a homestead farm the right to make one final appeal to their local legislative body to review the potential…
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