2025 House Bill 4511

State finance: other; limitations on holding a digital asset; prohibit.

A bill to prohibit the banning, provision of permitting or licensure requirements, or provision of other impairments of or for the holding of digital assets; to prohibit the advocacy or support through certain actions by certain state governmental officers and entities of a central bank digital currency by the United States government; to prohibit the imposition of prohibitions on the operation of certain nodes related to blockchain protocols, certain transfers of digital assets on blockchain protocols, or the participation in staking on certain blockchain protocols; to prohibit certain civil liability; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities.

Introduced in the House

May 21, 2025

Introduced by Rep. Bryan Posthumus (R-90) and seven co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Mike McFall (D-14), Alabas Farhat (D-3), Joseph Aragona (R-60), Tom Kunse (R-100), Tyrone Carter (D-1), Jason Woolford (R-50) and William Bruck (R-30)

Referred to the Committee on Communications and Technology