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Committee hears bill to codify Hoosier Homestead program and give homestead farms limited remonstrance against eminent domain
Summary
House Bill 1265 would put the Hoosier Homestead Award program into statute, create an electronic registry for centennial farms and give qualifying homestead farms a local remonstrance step before fee‑simple eminent domain; ISDA testified neutrally and the committee deferred technical changes for a future meeting.
Representative Green presented House Bill 1265, which would codify the Hoosier Homestead Award program, require an ISDA-maintained registry of qualifying homestead farms and create a limited process for a registered homestead farm to remonstrate to the local legislative body before a fee-simple condemnation.
The measure is aimed at families that have owned and operated the same farm for multiple generations and would not create a blanket exemption from eminent domain. Instead, the bill would trigger notice to the local legislative body and give that body a chance to review a proposed fee-simple taking; the local body would still have to determine whether there is a feasible and prudent alternative to using the homestead farm for the public…
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