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Committee hears bill to put Hoosier Homestead program into statute and add limited remonstrance for eminent domain
Summary
House Bill 1265 would codify the Hoosier Homestead award program and create a limited local remonstrance process before fee-simple condemnation of registered homestead farms. The committee heard testimony and the author said technical amendments will be prepared; the item was held for further work.
Representative Michael Greene introduced House Bill 1265 to the committee as a companion measure to farmland-protection efforts, proposing to codify the Hoosier Homestead Farm Program in statute and to create a limited, local remonstrance process for eligible farms facing fee-simple condemnation.
The bill would require ISDA to maintain an electronic registry of homestead farms (those with continuous family ownership for 100, 150 or 200 years, per the program criteria) and would trigger a notice to the local legislative body when a fee-simple taking is proposed that affects a registered homestead farm. That local body (typically the county commissioners or municipal…
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