republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-180.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Central bank digital currency."
description: "Prohibits a governmental body (defined as the state or a state agency) from: (1) accepting payment made with a central bank digital currency; or (2) requiring payment to be made with a central bank digital currency; for any service, tax, license, permit, fee, information, or other amount due the governmental body. Prohibits an administrative branch governmental body (defined as an entity of the administrative branch of state government) from advocating for or supporting the testing, adoption, or implementation of a central bank digital currency by the United States government. Defines \"central bank digital currency\" for purposes of these provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 180"
citation: "Indiana SB 180 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCIAL SERVICES; Financial Institutions", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Kyle Pierce", "Mark Messmer", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92936415-d804-4e70-ab96-ae527c5e56a5"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0180"
source_hash: "7f18e8d038066259d1ebec49aacfde4465f52ae0a047689234a93f9c9e057b89"
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-in"]
---

# Indiana SB 180 (2024) — Central bank digital currency.

Prohibits a governmental body (defined as the state or a state agency) from: (1) accepting payment made with a central bank digital currency; or (2) requiring payment to be made with a central bank digital currency; for any service, tax, license, permit, fee, information, or other amount due the governmental body. Prohibits an administrative branch governmental body (defined as an entity of the administrative branch of state government) from advocating for or supporting the testing, adoption, or implementation of a central bank digital currency by the United States government. Defines "central bank digital currency" for purposes of these provisions.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0180/SB0180.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0180/SB0180.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0180/SB0180.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0180/SB0180.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 180 - Pierce K - 3rd Reading — **83–11** (pass) · lower
- SB 180 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Kyle Pierce — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
- Mike Speedy — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Negele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2024-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Senator Messmer added as third author
- **2024-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-01** Senator Gaskill added as coauthor
- **2024-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** Senator Baldwin added as second author
- **2024-02-06** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
- **2024-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Carbaugh
- **2024-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 129: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Speedy
- **2024-02-07** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Representative Speedy added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-19** Representative Pierce K added as sponsor
- **2024-02-19** Representative Speedy removed as sponsor
- **2024-02-22** Representative Negele added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-22** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2024-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Representative Lindauer added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 223: yeas 83, nays 11 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 21 `became-law`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92936415-d804-4e70-ab96-ae527c5e56a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).