---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to blockchain digital assets."
description: "Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to define terms relating to blockchain technology; allow individuals to use digital assets and self-hosted wallets; prohibit local zoning changes that discriminate against a digital asset mining business; provide guidelines for operation of a node; amend KRS 286.11-007 to exclude home digital asset mining, digital asset mining business, and the operation of a node from money transmitter license requirements; amend KRS 292.340 to provide that digital asset mining or staking as a service shall not be deemed to be offering or selling a security."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "HB 701"
citation: "Kentucky HB 701 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy", "Information Technology", "Land Use", "Local Government", "Planning and Zoning", "Taxation", "Income--Corporate", "Taxation", "Income--Individual", "Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6828afe-03d5-414a-a3c8-cdf13aa47d8e"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb701.html"
source_hash: "75c23d8e8dc03cffcf35b4728b57e3817eeea91db21d8acef04e62f657878a0a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky HB 701 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to blockchain digital assets.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to define terms relating to blockchain technology; allow individuals to use digital assets and self-hosted wallets; prohibit local zoning changes that discriminate against a digital asset mining business; provide guidelines for operation of a node; amend KRS 286.11-007 to exclude home digital asset mining, digital asset mining business, and the operation of a node from money transmitter license requirements; amend KRS 292.340 to provide that digital asset mining or staking as a service shall not be deemed to be offering or selling a security.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb701/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 50** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0050.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb701/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Pass — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 701 — **37–0** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** to Banking & Insurance (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 91-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** to Banking & Insurance (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 13, 2025
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 50) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6828afe-03d5-414a-a3c8-cdf13aa47d8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).