Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has signed a mouth into police that prohibits the blockchain engineering scientific discipline from existence used to runway firearm information.
First filed yesteryear Arizona dry reason example Paul Boyer inwards January, HB 2216 will foreclose anyone – although police enforcement are exempt nether the dominion – from using the distributed ledger to runway when a firearm has been fired.
The mouth states:‘Electronic firearm tracking technology’ agency a platform, organisation or device or a grouping of systems or devices that uses a shared ledger, distributed ledger or block chain engineering scientific discipline or whatever like shape of engineering scientific discipline or electronic database for the role of storing information inwards a decentralized or centralized way, that is non owned or controlled yesteryear whatever unmarried someone or entity together with that is used to locate or command the utilisation of a firearm.
According to populace records, the senate passed the mouth before this calendar month amongst a vote of 17-12, amongst ane fellow member abstaining. It together with then moved to the House this calendar week where the mouth passed amongst a vote of 34-24, amongst ane fellow member abstaining. After existence sent across to Gov. Ducey, the mouth was signed into law.
This is the minute mouth that Gov. Ducey has signed into police that focuses on the blockchain. At the cease of March, Ducey besides signed a mouth that recognizes blockchain signatures together with smart contracts after it passed the House amongst a vote of 28-1.
However, acre Arizona seems to move leading the way with passing blockchain bills, it is non the alone dry reason to sign them into law.
Other Blockchain Bills
It was announced inwards Feb that Hawaii had filed a bill, HB 1481, which is aimed at boosting tourism together with the engineering scientific discipline merchandise inwards the state.
New Hampshire is besides getting on board later passing bill, HB 436 inwards the House of Representatives terminal month. If passed it agency that people using digital currencies could move excused from money transmitter regulations inwards the state. Whether or non this volition occur remains to move seen amongst its fate to be determined inwards the dry reason Senate.
Of course, while these are only a few cases of the blockchain bills that convey passed or are inwards progress, it highlights the direction many states are moving in.
Keen involvement inwards the blockchain tin besides move seen through the Washington D.C.-based bipartisan Congression blockchain caucus, which formed to interrogation the engineering scientific discipline farther together with its potential regulations for hereafter use.
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