PA HB402

Expands Agricultural Lands Condemnation Approval Board jurisdiction to include all highway purposes, removing the current exemption for existing highway activities like roadway widening, curve elimination, and reconstruction

Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to select an alternate active farmer to serve when a farmer member is absent, with alternates serving for the appointed member's term and limited to representing only one farmer member

Updates statutory references from "Secretary of Environmental Resources" to "Secretary of Environmental Protection" and from "Office of State Planning and Development" to "State Planning Board"

Clarifies that the chairman's failure to convene a board meeting does not constitute a failure to act on a condemnation request

Takes effect 60 days after enactment