H.B. 1156: Digital asset mining.
Indiana, 2025 Regular Session. In committee, January 8, 2025.
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H.B. 1156 at a glance
Status In committee In committee, .
No official summary is on file yet. The full text is on the legislature's page, linked below.
Digital asset mining. Prohibits a county, municipality, or township (unit) from adopting or enforcing an ordinance that would have the effect of prohibiting, restricting, or impairing an individual's or a business's ability to: (1) use digital assets to purchase legal goods and services; (2) accept digital assets as a method of payment for legal goods and services; (3) use a hardware wallet or self hosted wallet to store the individual's or business's digital assets; (4) take custody of digital assets by using a hardware wallet or self hosted wallet; or (5) operate a node for the purpose of connecting to a blockchain protocol and participating in the blockchain protocol's operations. Provides that use of a property for a digital asset mining business is a permitted industrial use under any applicable zoning ordinance of a unit and may not be disallowed by a zoning ordinance in a zoning district that permits industrial use. Prohibits a unit from applying the unit's zoning ordinances in specified ways to regulate digital asset mining.
Measure Bill.
Sponsors Kyle Pierce (R); Heath VanNatter (R); Kyle Miller (D); Christopher Judy (R)
Subjects None on file. The legislature's own list.
The record's tags digital asset mining Added by the record so a count or a filter can tell these apart; the legislature did not write them.
Official page iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/house/1156/details. Found through LegiScan (bill 1903410), whose data is CC BY 4.0; the citation is the legislature's own page.
What happened, and when
- January 8, 2025 In committee
H.B. 1156 went to committee in the House. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government.
- January 8, 2025 Introduced
H.B. 1156 was introduced in the House. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government.
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