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Committee hears bill to codify Hoosier Homestead program and add remonstrance process for eminent domain
Summary
House Bill 1265 would place the Hoosier Homestead Award program into statute, create an electronic registry, and give qualifying farms a local remonstrance step against fee-simple eminent domain takings; ISDA offered technical suggestions and the bill was held for amendment work.
House Bill 1265, a proposal to codify the Hoosier Homestead Farm Program and create a limited remonstrance process for qualifying multigenerational farms facing fee-simple eminent-domain actions, was presented to the House Agriculture Committee.
The bill’s sponsor said 1265 would put the Hoosier Homestead Award program into statute, create an electronic registry of homestead farms and provide a local-level appeal step when a public entity seeks to acquire a homestead farm in fee simple. “1265 simply gives a homestead farm the right to make one final appeal to their local legislative body to review the potential condemnation,” the sponsor said, describing the narrow…
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