Bitcoin reserve bills advance in New Hampshire, Florida

New Hampshire’s Home and Florida’s Home insurance coverage and banking committee have respectively superior payments permitting their states to create Bitcoin reserves.

New Hampshire’s Home handed its Bitcoin reserve invoice, HB302, in a 192-179 vote on April 10 which can now head to the Senate. The state is now the fourth to cross a Bitcoin (BTC) reserve invoice by means of one chamber, becoming a member of Arizona, Texas and Oklahoma.

If HB302 clears New Hampshire’s Senate and Governor Kelly Ayotte indicators it into regulation it might permit the state’s treasurer to make use of 10% of the state’s normal fund and different approved funds to spend money on treasured metals and sure digital property. The invoice additionally units out how they need to be custodied.

The invoice specifies that solely cryptocurrencies with a market capitalization of over $500 billion can be eligible for funding, a standards that solely Bitcoin presently meets.

In a debate previous to the vote, Democrat Consultant Terry Spahr argued that the invoice is pointless and will undermine the longer term safety of the state’s digital property stockpile. 

“Unbeknownst to the committee and to the sponsor […] the treasurer testified that they have already got that authority,” Spahr mentioned. He added that cryptocurrency is “consistently shifting and altering, and it’s form of harmful to be form of locked into sure sorts of safety measures, and I feel that invoice does this.”

Republican Consultant Jordan Ulery countered that the invoice was mandatory because it might create the “potential for a big sum of money being earned by the state in these investments.”

New Hampshire has two different blockchain-related payments working their method by means of the legislature — HB310, which covers stablecoins and real-world asset tokenization (RWA) and HB 639, which offers with blockchain regulation and dispute decision.

Florida Home Committee passes Bitcoin reserve invoice 

In the meantime on April 10, Florida’s Home Insurance coverage and Banking Committee handed the state’s Bitcoin reserve bill, HB487, with a unanimous vote.

The invoice has three committees to clear earlier than it progresses to Florida’s Home.

WATCH: Florida Home Committee PASSES Bitcoin Reserve Invoice

The Insurance coverage and Banking Committee handed HB 487 unanimously immediately

Together with transferring testimony from invoice sponsor Rep. Webster Barnaby pic.twitter.com/myAlNvtFl9

— Bitcoin Legal guidelines (@Bitcoin_Laws) April 10, 2025

Just like New Hampshire’s invoice, HB487 would permit Florida’s chief monetary officer and the State Board of Administration to speculate as much as 10% of sure state funds — together with the Basic Income Fund and the Finances Stabilization Fund — into Bitcoin.

The invoice’s sponsor, Republican Consultant Webster Barnaby pleaded with the Committee earlier than the vote “to vote up on this essential invoice” which he claimed would “put Florida in the forefront of this very new know-how.”

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Florida’s invoice provides the state’s monetary chief the flexibility to spend money on digital property immediately, by means of sure certified custodians, or by means of exchange-traded merchandise and particulars safety and custody necessities.

According to Bitcoin Legal guidelines, which tracks the progress of digital property laws, Arizona is presently main the race to turn out to be the primary US state to ascertain a strategic Bitcoin reserve. 

On March 24, two digital property reserve payments, SB1373 and SB1025, cleared Arizona’s House Rules Committee and at the moment are headed to the state’s Home for a full flooring vote. 

If handed by the Home, the payments would then want the signature of Arizona’s Democratic governor, Katie Hobbs to turn out to be regulation.

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