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.
Below the proposed laws, Texas’ comptroller would have the facility 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 colleges, well being care, or different very 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 underneath its management into bitcoin and/or different cryptocurrencies.
If the invoice had been to grow to be regulation, it might 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 response to Bitcoin Legal guidelines, H.B. 4258 is considered one of eight at present lively 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 steadiness sheet in some vogue. The opposite three — H.B. 1598, Senate Invoice (S.B.) 21 and S.B. 778 — all name for Texas to determine 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 lately handed the state Senate with a 25-5 vote.
Texas stays the state with the second highest variety of lively bitcoin- and crypto-related payments, trailing behind solely Arizona, which has 9 lively payments, three of that are near being enacted into regulation.
The state continues to be one of the Bitcoin-friendly states in the USA, as not solely is it pleasant to Bitcoin in a legislative sense, however it’s at present house to roughly one-third of the U.S.’s whole Bitcoin mining hash fee.
