# Indiana HB 1156: Digital asset mining.

Indiana HB 1156, Digital asset mining., is a First Regular Session 124th General Assembly (2025) House bill sponsored by Kyle Pierce (Republican); status failed, last action 2025-01-21 (Representative Judy added as coauthor) (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: Indiana HB 1156
- State: Indiana
- Session: First Regular Session 124th General Assembly (2025)
- Title: Digital asset mining.
- Status: failed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-01-08
- Last action: 2025-01-21, Representative Judy added as coauthor
- Sponsor: Kyle Pierce (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Subjects: local government
- Touches household money: no
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

Prohibits a county, municipality, or township (unit) from adopting or enforcing an ordinance that would have the effect of prohibiting, restricting, or impairing an individual's or a business's ability to: (1) use digital assets to purchase legal goods and services; (2) accept digital assets as a method of payment for legal goods and services; (3) use a hardware wallet or self-hosted wallet to store the individual's or business's digital assets; (4) take custody of digital assets by using a hardware wallet or self-hosted wallet; or (5) operate a node for the purpose of connecting to a blockchain protocol and participating in the blockchain protocol's operations. Provides that use of a property for a digital asset mining business is a permitted industrial use under any applicable zoning ordinance of a unit and may not be disallowed by a zoning ordinance in a zoning district that permits industrial use. Prohibits a unit from applying the unit's zoning ordinances in specified ways to regulate digital asset mining.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Kyle Pierce (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Chris Judy (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Heath VanNatter (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Kyle Miller (Democratic), House

## Actions (4)

- 2025-01-21: Representative Judy added as coauthor (House)
- 2025-01-08: First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government (House)
- 2025-01-08: Authored by Representative Pierce K (House)
- 2025-01-08: Coauthored by Representatives VanNatter and Miller K (House)

## Bill text

- Introduced House Bill (H): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/HB1156/versions/HB1156.01.INTR?format=pdf)

## Related bills

- SB 324: Criminal procedures. (signed)
- SB 231: Various corrections matters. (signed)
- SB 80: Code publication. (signed)
- SB 453: Various tax matters. (signed)
- SB 464: Financial institutions and consumer credit. (signed)
- SB 371: Workforce matters. (signed)

## Sources
- [Introduced House Bill (H) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/HB1156/versions/HB1156.01.INTR?format=pdf)

## Related
- [SB 324: Criminal procedures.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB324-2025)
- [SB 231: Various corrections matters.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB231-2025)
- [SB 80: Code publication.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB80-2025)
- [SB 453: Various tax matters.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB453-2025)
- [SB 464: Financial institutions and consumer credit.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB464-2025)
- [SB 371: Workforce matters.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB371-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-HB1156-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).