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Committee hears bill to codify Hoosier Homestead program and allow local remonstrance against condemnation
Summary
House Bill 1265 would place the Hoosier Homestead Award program into statute, create an electronic registry of qualifying farms and provide a local remonstrance process before fee-simple eminent-domain takings of homestead farms; the committee heard testimony and agreed to hold the bill for technical amendments.
Representative [name given in testimony as Representative Green] introduced House Bill 1265 to the House Agriculture Committee, proposing to codify the Hoosier Homestead Award program and to give qualifying century-plus family farms a local remonstrance process when a fee-simple condemnation is proposed.
Supporters said the measure formalizes a long-running ceremonial program and gives multi-generational family farms an avenue to seek local review before a final condemnation decision. "We learned that the state of Indiana lost 345,682 acres between 2010 and 2022," the bill’s…
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