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Committee hears Hoosier Homestead bill to give multigenerational farms a local remonstrance process; vote deferred
Summary
Rep. Green introduced House Bill 12-65 to codify the Hoosier Homestead program and to create a local remonstrance process for family farms facing fee-simple condemnation; the House Agriculture Committee heard testimony and agreed to hold the bill to consider technical amendments at a later meeting.
Rep. Green presented House Bill 12-65, which would place the Hoosier Homestead Farm program into statute and create a limited remonstrance process for multi-generational Hoosier homestead farms facing fee-simple condemnation.
The bill would require the Indiana State Department of Agriculture to maintain an electronic registry of Hoosier Homestead farms and would notify local legislative bodies if a fee-simple taking is proposed for a registered homestead farm, triggering a local review. "12-65 simply gives a homestead farm the right to make 1…
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