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Committee hears Hoosier Homestead bill and holds it for technical amendment
Summary
House Bill 1265 would codify the Hoosier Homestead Farm program and give qualifying century-plus family farms a local remonstrance right before fee‑simple eminent domain takings. The committee heard testimony and agreed to hold the bill for technical amendments.
Representative Green presented House Bill 1265, which would place the Hoosier Homestead Farm recognition program into statute and create a limited remonstrance process for family farms that have been in a family for 100, 150 or 200 years.
"House Bill 1265 seeks to balance competing views of time," Representative Green said, summarizing the bill's intent to give long‑held family farms a path to appeal to a local legislative body before a fee‑simple condemnation. The bill, as described to the committee, applies only to fee‑simple takings and does not extend to…
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