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Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act SF0050 Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Sponsored by Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology (Unknown)

Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act

Wyoming’s DUNA Act creates a state entity framework for decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations, covering governance, member liability, property, records, DLT-based voting, mergers and conversions.

Last action: Mar 7, 2024 - Governor signed SEA No. 0023; assigned Chapter Number 50.

Profile State source SF0050 Enrolled Act
NYDFS Coin Listing Guidance NYDFS Industry Letter, Nov. 15, 2023 Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Guidance Regarding Listing of Virtual Currencies

NYDFS’s 2023 coin listing guidance sets approval, self-certification, Greenlist, risk assessment, and delisting expectations for New York-regulated VC Entities.

Last action: Jan 31, 2024 - Final delisting policies due

Profile NYDFS Guidance Regarding Listing of Virtual Currencies
BitLicense: New York Virtual Currency Regulation 23 NYCRR Part 200; DFS-29-14-00015-A Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Regulation of the Conduct of Virtual Currency Businesses

New York DFS rule requiring a license or approved banking-law charter for covered virtual currency business activity involving New York or New York residents, with compliance, capital, custody, AML, cybersecurity, reporting, and consumer-disclosure obligations.

Last action: Nov 15, 2023 - Coin-listing guidance updated

Profile NYDFS Virtual Currency Business Licensing
Texas Virtual Currency Mining Facility Registration Regime SB 1929 Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Sponsored by Sen. Nathan Johnson (D)

Senate Bill 1929 — relating to the registration of virtual currency mining facilities in the ERCOT power region that demand a large load of interruptible power

Texas SB 1929 and PUCT Rule 16 TAC §25.114 require qualifying virtual currency mining facilities in ERCOT to register as large flexible loads and report facility and load data.

Last action: Jun 9, 2023 - Signed by Governor; effective September 1, 2023.

Next: Mar 1, 2027 - Annual registration renewal

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Nevada Virtual Currency Money Transmission Regime AB 21 Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Sponsored by Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor (Unknown)

Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 671 — Money Transmission

Nevada regulates virtual-currency transmission through NRS Chapter 671 and FID determinations. Licensing may apply to money transmission, stored value, fiat/digital currency transmission, or custody models.

Last action: May 24, 2023 - AB 21 approved as Chapter 23, modernizing NRS Chapter 671 money transmission provisions.

Next: Jan 1, 2030 - Future NRS 671.020 version

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NYDFS Stablecoin Guidance NYDFS Industry Letter, June 8, 2022 Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Guidance on the Issuance of U.S. Dollar-Backed Stablecoins

NYDFS guidance sets baseline redeemability, reserve, custody, and attestation expectations for U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins issued under DFS supervision.

Last action: Jun 8, 2022 - DFS issued the guidance; it remains listed on the DFS virtual currency guidance page without a stablecoin-specific supersession note.

Next: Jan 18, 2027 - GENIUS effective backstop

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Idaho Digital Assets Act: UCC Digital Asset Amendments H0583 Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Sponsored by House Business Committee (Unknown)

Adds to existing law to provide for classification, purchase and sale, and perfection by possession or control of digital assets.

Idaho’s Digital Assets Act adds Title 28, Chapter 53 to classify digital assets, digital securities, and virtual currency, and to address purchase, sale, perfection, priority, and control.

Last action: Mar 31, 2022 - Reported signed by Governor on March 28, 2022; Session Law Chapter 284; effective July 1, 2022.

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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Digital Asset Broker Reporting Provisions H.R. 3684 Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Sponsored by Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (D)

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 80603, Information Reporting for Brokers and Digital Assets

IIJA §80603 created U.S. digital-asset broker reporting rules under IRC §§6045 and 6045A, with Form 1099-DA phased in from 2025.

Last action: Nov 15, 2021 - Became Public Law No. 117-58.

Next: Dec 31, 2026 - Temporary basis-identification relief ends

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Wyoming Decentralized Autonomous Organization Supplement SF0038 Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Sponsored by Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology (Unknown)

Wyoming Decentralized Autonomous Organization Supplement

Wyoming statute letting LLCs elect DAO status, with rules for smart-contract identifiers, DAO/LAO/DAO LLC naming, member governance, duties, voting, information rights, and dissolution.

Last action: Apr 21, 2021 - Assigned Chapter 162 and approved; original act effective July 1, 2021.

Profile State source Wyoming Statutes Title 17, Chapter 31
Arkansas Uniform Money Services Act Virtual Currency Amendments SB 150 Effective Details Draft Draft: Completed Intro Introduced: Completed Committee In committee: Completed Passed Passed: Completed Enacted Enacted: Completed Effective Effective: Current

Sponsored by Sen. Jonathan Dismang (R)

An Act to Amend the Uniform Money Services Act; and for Other Purposes

Arkansas Act 532 amended the Uniform Money Services Act to define virtual currency, bring certain virtual-currency transmission under money services rules, and add related reporting, cybersecurity, recordkeeping, and permissible-investment provisions.

Last action: Apr 5, 2021 - Notification that SB150 is now Act 532.

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