{"id":32822,"date":"2025-06-20T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=32822"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:46:44","slug":"arizona-moves-closer-to-creating-bitcoin-reserve-as-bill-passes-final-senate-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=32822","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Moves Closer to Creating Bitcoin Reserve as Bill Passes Final Senate Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Arizona moved closer to establishing a bitcoin BTC reserve fund after the state&#8217;s Senate voted in favor of the bill at its third reading.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona&#8217;s Senate passed <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.azleg.gov\/BillStatus\/BillOverview\/82095\">House Bill 2324 (HB2324)<\/a> in a 16-14 vote on Thursday, sending it back to House for a final decision. <\/p>\n<p>The legislation would update Arizona&#8217;s laws on forfeiture, allowing the state to hold abandoned digital assets as unclaimed property. It also creates a &#8220;Bitcoin and digital assets reserve fund&#8221; to manage the forfeited assets.<\/p>\n<p>It follows <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.azleg.gov\/BillStatus\/BillOverview\/83210\">House Bill 2749 (HB2749)<\/a>, enacted in April, which amended unclaimed property frameworks to integrate digital assets. <\/p>\n<p>The bill is distinct from <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.azleg.gov\/BillStatus\/BillOverview\/81632\">Senate Bill 1025 (SB1025)<\/a>, which proposed using seized funds to invest in BTC. That passed the House 31-25 before being vetoed by Governor Katie Hobbs, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/03\/arizona-governor-calls-crypto-an-untested-investment-vetoes-bitcoin-reserve-bill\">referred to cryptocurrency as an &#8220;untested investment.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only state to have completed the legislative process for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/06\/new-hampshire-becomes-first-state-to-approve-crypto-reserve-law\">creating a BTC reserve is New Hampshire<\/a>. Like Arizona, a bill in <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&amp;Bill=SB21\">Texas is also in its final stages<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona moved closer to establishing a bitcoin BTC reserve fund after the state&#8217;s Senate voted in favor of the bill at its third reading. Arizona&#8217;s Senate passed House Bill 2324 (HB2324) in a 16-14 vote on Thursday, sending it back to House for a final decision. The legislation would update Arizona&#8217;s laws on forfeiture, allowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-32822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}