republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-701.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 701	Kentucky HB 701 (2025RS)	bill	Energy Information Technology Land Use Local Government Planning and Zoning Taxation Income--Corporate Taxation Income--Individual Technology	enacted		3	19	2	2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e6828afe-03d5-414a-a3c8-cdf13aa47d8e	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb701.html	75c23d8e8dc03cffcf35b4728b57e3817eeea91db21d8acef04e62f657878a0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Acts Chapter 50 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/e6828afe-03d5-414a-a3c8-cdf13aa47d8e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).