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Lawmakers consider codifying Hoosier Homestead recognition and narrow remonstrance right against eminent domain
Summary
House Bill 1265 would put the Hoosier Homestead Farm Program into statute, create an electronic registry of eligible homestead farms and give qualifying farms a limited opportunity to remonstrate locally against a fee-simple taking by eminent domain. Committee members asked for technical edits and held the bill for amendment.
Lawmakers in the House Agriculture Committee considered House Bill 1265, which would codify the Hoosier Homestead Farm Program, require ISDA to maintain an electronic registry of qualifying homestead farms and give registered homestead farms a limited right to seek local legislative review before a fee-simple taking by eminent domain.
The bill's author said the measure complements other farmland preservation efforts and highlighted the scale of farmland loss in Indiana. "We learned that the state of Indiana lost 345,682…
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