Committee hears bill to codify Hoosier Homestead protections and remonstrance process

Representative (unnumbered in excerpt) presented House Bill 1265 as a companion measure to farmland-protection proposals. The bill would codify the Hoosier Homestead Farm program in statute, require ISDA to maintain an electronic registry of qualifying homestead farms, and establish a local remonstrance process allowing a homestead farm to request review by the local legislative body before a fee-simple condemnation affecting the homestead proceeds.