HB1156: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Introduced House Bill (H)
• Current Chamber: house
• Origin Chamber: house
• Description: Digital asset mining.

Legislators

Actions (4 total)

• Jan 21, 2025, 9:56 AM: Representative Judy added as coauthor
• Jan 8, 2025, 6:35 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
• Jan 8, 2025, 6:35 AM: Authored by Representative Pierce K
• Jan 8, 2025, 6:35 AM: Coauthored by Representatives VanNatter and Miller K

Digest

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.