A new partisan bill introduced by Democrats in Hawaii's House of Representatives on Monday, Jan. 26, is advocating a targeted strategy for studying and supporting the use of blockchain technology by individuals, firms and state agencies.
Hawaii House Bill 622 (HB622) calls for the passage of an act that would require the state's economic development agency, the Hawaii technology development corporation, to create a blockchain working group that would both recommend a definition for blockchain and offer recommendations for the adoption of the technology. The introduction to HB622 states: