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Texas Bill HB 815 Would Let Cities, Counties Invest Up to $10M in Crypto

Texas state Representative Ron Reynolds, a Democrat, filed HB 815, a bill authorizing municipalities and counties to invest public funds in cryptocurrency. The measure caps such investment at $10 million of a city’s or county’s funds, covering bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. The bill, if enacted, would take effect on September 1, 2027.

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The significance here is less about the dollar cap than about the direction of travel: a state-level proposal to let local governments hold crypto as a public asset, filed by a Democratic lawmaker rather than a crypto-ideological Republican, suggests the idea is migrating from partisan signaling toward routine treasury policy. It would matter most to municipal finance officers and to the crypto custody and compliance providers that would serve them. The distant effective date and single-member filing mean this is a marker, not a near-term change; whether it advances past committee is the open question.

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