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Committee hears bill to put Hoosier Homestead award into statute and give families limited remonstrance rights against condemnation
Summary
House Bill 1265 would codify the Hoosier Homestead Award program and create a narrow local remonstrance process for family farms with century-long ownership facing fee‑simple condemnation; committee discussion produced neutral agency testimony and the bill was held for technical amendments.
Representative introduced House Bill 1265 to codify the Hoosier Homestead Farm program into statute and to give qualifying farms a limited opportunity for local remonstrance when a fee‑simple taking is proposed through eminent domain.
The bill would put the Hoosier Homestead Award program—an honorific program recognizing family farms owned continuously for 100, 150 or 200 years—into statute and create a registry at ISDA. Representative Green, in his presentation, said the bill “first puts the Hoosier Homestead Farm Program into statute,” and described a process that would trigger notice to the local…
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