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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1234: Conservation of agricultural land.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1234 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 9, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Conservation of agricultural land. Primary sponsor: Kendell Culp (Republican). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 27, 2025): Representative Bauer added as coauthor.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Establishes an agricultural land protection program (program) to allow the state or a county fiscal body to purchase agricultural conservation easements throughout the state and also acquire agricultural conservation easements by gift, bequest, or devise. Provides that the Indiana state department of agriculture (department) may receive and hold agricultural conservation easements acquired under the program or by gift, bequest, or devise. Establishes the Indiana land protection board to administer the program in coordination with the department. Establishes the agricultural conservation easement fund to provide funding for the purchase of agricultural conservation easements throughout the state. Makes an appropriation.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Kendell CulpPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse16
Mike AylesworthCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse11
Maureen BauerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse6

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Representative Bauer added as coauthor
  2. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  3. Recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
  4. Representative Aylesworth added as coauthor
  5. First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
  6. Authored by Representative Culp

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source