As we speak, H.B. 4258, which authorizes the state’s comptroller to speculate as much as $250 million in bitcoin has been referred to the state’s Supply of Authorities Effectivity Committee, which is Texas’ model of the USA federal authorities’s DOGE.
The invoice was initially launched to the Texas Home of Representatives on March 11, 2025, and was sponsored by two Democratic Congresspeople — Rep. Ron Reynolds and Mihaela Plesa.
Underneath the proposed laws, Texas’ comptroller would have the ability to speculate funds (as much as $250 million, as talked about) from the state’s Financial Stabilization Fund — colloquially known as the state’s “Wet Day Fund”, which was created to function a financial savings account for the state and to forestall sudden notable cuts to varsities, well being care, or different important state companies — into bitcoin and/or different cryptocurrencies.
It additionally authorizes municipalities or counties to speculate as much as $10 million of its funds or funds below its management into bitcoin and/or different cryptocurrencies.
If the invoice have been to turn into regulation, it will take impact on September 1, 2025, which would offer state- and local-level authorities officers time to formulate an funding technique in addition to devise a plan for custody.
In keeping with Bitcoin Legal guidelines, H.B. 4258 is considered one of eight at the moment energetic bitcoin- or crypto-related payments which have been launched to both the Texas Senator or the state’s Home of Representatives. Of the eight payments, it’s the fifth to maneuver to committee.
4 of those payments, together with this present invoice, would authorize the state to place bitcoin on its stability sheet in some style. The opposite three — H.B. 1598, Senate Invoice (S.B.) 21 and S.B. 778 — all name for Texas to ascertain a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR).
These three SBR payments are all in committee, with S.B. 21 now in its second spherical of assessment by committee. The invoice just lately handed the state Senate with a 25-5 vote.
Texas stays the state with the second highest variety of energetic bitcoin- and crypto-related payments, trailing behind solely Arizona, which has 9 energetic payments, three of that are near being enacted into regulation.
The state continues to be probably the most Bitcoin-friendly states in the USA, as not solely is it pleasant to Bitcoin in a legislative sense, however it’s at the moment house to roughly one-third of the U.S.’s whole Bitcoin mining hash price.
