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Bill to give Hoosier Homestead farms a remonstrance right against eminent domain held for amendment
Summary
House Bill 1265 would codify the Hoosier Homestead Farm program and create a limited remonstrance process allowing qualifying century-family farms a local hearing before condemnation by fee-simple takings; the committee held the bill for technical amendments.
Representative Greene presented House Bill 1265 to put the Hoosier Homestead Farm program into statute and to create a remonstrance process allowing qualifying multigenerational farms a local review before fee-simple condemnation.
Greene said the Hoosier Homestead Award, established administratively in 1976, recognizes family farms owned continuously for at least 100 years (with additional categories at 150 and 200 years). He said House Bill 1265 would require ISDA to maintain an electronic registry of homestead farms and would trigger local notice…
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