Last mentioned: Feb 26, 2026
Expected Implementation
Anticipated effective date for the new tax protections and retirement account provisions.
Gubernatorial Review
The bill is transmitted to Governor Mike Braun for final review and signature.
Legislative Approval
HB 1042 clears both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly with broad support.
Indiana's legislature has passed HB 1042, a comprehensive 'crypto rights' bill that prohibits discriminatory taxation on digital assets. The legislation, now awaiting Governor Mike Braun's signature, also paves the way for including cryptocurrencies in state-regulated retirement accounts.
This page surfaces every story mentioning HB 1042 across our crypto coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running crypto beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where HB 1042 was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |