Financial Transaction Freedom
Sovereign Banks, State Banking and Currency:
- TN: HB2798/SB2615 Legal tender when offered by the buyer as payment
- TN: HB2100/SB2148 Prohibit…discriminating based upon the use of a social credit score.
- The (Tennessee-specific) model language for the sales tax exemption for cash transactions (SB 1734)
- For those seeking a non-offensive, non-Tedros handout (WHO)
- Is Your State Protecting Financial Freedom? Get The Full Breakdown Here
- Catherine Austin Fitts, TN legislators discuss Central Bank Digital Currency Nov. 6 in Rogersville
- A Look at 10 Red States Leading the Charge Against Financial Tyranny
- Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Legislation to Protect Floridians from a Federally Controlled Central Bank Digital Currency and Surveillance State
- Arkansas Passes Legal Tender Act, Removes Taxes on Gold and Silver
- Bills Filed In Oklahoma & Missouri Would Eliminate Capital Gains Tax On The Sale Of Gold & Silver (Legal Tender)
- Sound Money Movement Strikes Gold in 2023
- Tennessee poised to pass regulations for digital currencies.
- Utah’s Step-By-Step Strategy Against the Surveillance State
- TN SB 2543 Exempts state AG required livestock and poultry vaccination in certain situations. Bill was withdrawn
- Tennessee Governor Signs Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act Into Law
- Signed by the Governor: Tennessee Law Excludes CBDC from Definition of Money and Deposit Account
- Tennessee House, Senate reach deal on franchise tax bill — including public disclosures
Resources:
- Solari Report: Why a Sovereign State Bank Is Good for Tennessee by Richard A. Werner
- Solari Report: Financial Transaction Freedom Memo (FTF)
Searchable Headlines
| Story Date | State | Story Link | Bill Update | Category | Date Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-15 | TN | SB2615 requires a person offering for sale goods or services at retail to accept legal tender | 2024-03-12 Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee | Legal Tender Acceptance | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-04-15 | TN | TN SB 1734: Exempts from sales tax the first $500 of the sales price on a sale of tangible personal property paid for with legal tender | 2024-02-13 Refer to Senate F,W&M Revenue Subcommittee | First $500 exempt from Sales Tax | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-04-12 | KY | After Illegal Veto, Kentucky Becomes 45th State to End Sales Taxes on Gold and Silver | Legal Tender, Tax | 2024-04-12 | |
| 2024-04-01 | UT | Utah’s Step-By-Step Strategy Against the Surveillance State | Sovereignty | 2024-04-05 | |
| 2024-03-22 | UT | Utah Greenlights Gold and Silver Holdings to Protect State Reserve Funds | Precious Metals | 2024-03-23 | |
| 2023-06-20 | AL | Signed as Law: Alabama Takes Small Step Against a Potential CBDC | No CBDC | 2024-02-07 | |
| 2023-12-13 | FL | Florida Bills Would Treat Gold and Silver as Money | Precious Metals | 2024-02-06 | |
| 2024-01-24 | UT | Utah Bill Would Expand Specie Legal Tender Act | Legal Tender | 2024-02-07 | |
| 2024-02-06 | AZ | Arizona Bill Would Exclude CBDC from State Definition of Money | No CBDC | 2024-02-07 | |
| 2024-02-13 | AZ | Arizona Senate Committee Passes Bill to Establish Bullion Depository and Transactional Gold-Backed Currency | Passed | Gold Backed Currency, Bullion Depository | 2024-02-14 |
| 2024-02-05 | IA | Iowa Bill Would Make Gold and Silver Coins Legal Tender | Precious Metals | 2024-02-07 | |
| 2024-02-06 | SD | South Dakota House Passes Two Bills to Take Steps Against a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) | No CBDC | 2024-02-07 | |
| 2024-02-06 | SD | South Dakota House Passes Two Bills to Take Steps Against a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) | No CBDC | 2024-02-07 | |
| 2024-02-05 | TN | Tennessee Bill Would Exclude CBDC from State Definition of Money | No CBDC | 2024-02-07 | |
| 2024-02-06 | WI | Wisconsin Senate Committee Passes Bill That Would Take Step Toward Treating Gold and Silver as Money | Precious Metals | 2024-02-07 | |
| 2024-01-30 | TN | TN HB2370: Utility metering - 25% progression | 2024-03-12 House Taken off notice for cal in s/c Business & Utilities Subcommittee of Commerce Committee | TN, No Smart Meter | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-26 | Protecting Private Property Through the Uniform Commercial Code | UCC | 2024-01-31 | ||
| 2024-02-10 | TN | Nullify Unconstitutional Wars With Tennessee Bills HB 1609 and SB 2750 | SB0364 Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 04/23/2024 | Fed Deployment of TN National Guard | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-22 | UT | H.B. 348 Specie Legal Tender Amendments – Introduced | 2024-03-21 Governor Signed | Specie legal tender, Convertability, Gold and Silver | 2024-03-23 final |
| 2024-02-09 | KY | KY HB506: Prohibit Geoengineering - 25% progression | 02-09 - to House Committee On Committees Committee | KY Stop Geoengineering | 2024-03-23 |
| 2024-02-02 | NH | NH HB1156: Public Health, Safety, and State Sovereignty, WHO, IHR | 2024-03-14 - Lay on Table (Rep. Hoell): Motion Adopted DV 186-185 03/14/2024 House Journal 8 | State Sovereignty, WHO, IHR | 2024-03-23 |
| 2024-01-26 | TN | TN HB0640: Amendments adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in 2022 | Sponsor(s) Added. 04/11/2024 Comp. SB subst. 04/11/2024 H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/11/2024 | No UCC CBDC | 2024-04-25 |
| 2023-11-21 | TN | TN HB1609: National Guard duty expressly for Act of War or execute laws of union | Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee 2024-02-13 | National Guard | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-22 | TN | TN HB1901: CBDC excluded from "money" for UCC | Comp. became Pub. Ch. 694 2024-04-17 | No CBDC | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN HB2795: Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act | Sponsor(s) Added. 03/13/2024 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State Government Committee 03/12/2024 | 03/13/2024 | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN HB2799: Creation of a bullion depository | Taken off notice for cal in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State Government Committee | 03/12/2024 | 2024-03-23 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN HB2802:relative to financial transaction integrity | 02-07 - Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee, no change | Precious Metals & Currencies | 2024-03-23 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN HB2803: Produce, store, process, and ship bullion products for state. | 2024-04-17 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee | Bullion Products, Key Bill Companion: SB2735 | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN HB2804 : Precious Metals, Bullion and Specie Legal Tender | Companion to SB 2737, Returned to Clerk's Desk2024-04-17 | Percentage reserves in gold & silver, legal tender | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN HB2805: Relative to foreclosure of mortgages | Def. to Summer Study in Civil Justice Subcommittee 2024-03-12 | Adds 15 days to notice period | 2021-04-25 |
| 2024-01-25 | TN | TN SB0479: Amendments adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in 2022 | Transmitted to Governor for action. 04/17/2024 Signed by H. Speaker 04/16/2024 Signed by Senate Speaker 04/16/2024 | No UCC CBDC | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-12 | TN | TN SB1764: Digital Currency Money excluding CBDC for UCC - 25% progression | 2024-01-25 Senate Sponsor(s) Added. 2024-01-24 Senate Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee | No CBDC, UCC | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-30 | TN | TN SB2219: CBDC excluded from "money" for UCC | Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 04/17/2024 Pub. Ch. 694, Signed by Governor Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 | definition of money | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-30 | TN | TN SB2232: Utility metering (Smart Meter) - 25% progression | Failed on March 12 2024 - 100% progression Action: 2024-03-12 - Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee | TN, No Smart Meter | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN SB2544: protect the integrity of financial transactions | 2024-03-20 - Deferred to Summer Study | Financial Transaction Security | 2024-03-23 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN SB2601: Creation of a bullion depository | 2024-02-05 Senate Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee. No Change | Bullion Depository, Key Bill | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN SB2637: Relative to foreclosure of mortgages | 2024-03-20 - Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/26/2024 | Notice Period Extended | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN SB2735: facility to produce a wide range of precious metal products | Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024 | Bullion Products, Key Bill | 2024-04-25 |
| 2023-11-21 | TN | TN SB2750: National Guard duty expressly for Act of War or execute laws of union | 02-05 Senate Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee, no change | TN, Constitutional Guard Duty | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN SB2775: Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act | 2024-03-12 Senate Deferred to Summer Study | Nullificaiton, TN Sen. Bowling, Hensley | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-01-24 | Joseph P Farrell on what should be the next step for State Bank's to establish Financial Transaction Freedom | Financial Transaction Integrity, Legal Tender, Tax | 2024-01-31 | ||
| 2023-12-30 | Sound Money Movement Strikes Gold in 2023 | Financial Transaction Integrity | 2024-01-12 | ||
| 2024-01-26 | TN | Tennessee poised to pass regulations for digital currencies | No CBDC, No Private CBDC | 2024-01-28 | |
| 2024-01-29 | Four States Consider Lifting Taxes on Precious Metals | Capital Gains Tax, Sales Tax | 2024-01-31 | ||
| 2024-02-03 | NH | The World Health Assembly of WHO meet in May 2024 to vote on adoption of Pandemic Agreement (Treaty) and Amendments to IHR | Dr. Kat Lindley, Pushback-Take Action | 2024-02-09 | |
| 2024-01-31 | TN | TN SB2737: Precious Metals, Bullion and Specie Legal Tender | Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024 | Depository, Specie Legal Tender, Bullion, HB2804 | 2024-04-25 |
| 2024-03-14 | NC | NC should be first in financial freedom | Precious Metals & Currencies | 2024-03-15 | |
| 2023-05-24 | A Look at 10 Red States Leading the Charge Against Financial Tyranny | No CBDC, No Private CBDC | 2023-05-25 | ||
| 2023-05-19 | Is Your State Protecting Financial Freedom? Get The Full Breakdown Here | No CBDC, No Private CBDC | 2023-05-24 | ||
| 2023-03-20 | FL | Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Legislation to Protect Floridians from a Federally Controlled Central Bank Digital Currency and Surveillance State | No CBDC, No Private CBDC | 2023-03-26 | |
| 2024-01-09 | FL | HB 697: State Legal Tender and Bullion Depository - First Reading | 2024-03-08 House Died in State Affairs Committee | Precious Metals | 2024-03-23 |
| 2024-01-09 | FL | SB 750: State Legal Tender and Bullion Depository -Introduced | 2024-03-08 Senate Died in Banking and Insurance | Precious Metals | 2024-03-23 |
| 2023-04-18 | AR | Arkansas Passes Legal Tender Act, Removes Taxes on Gold and Silver | Precious Metals | 2023-12-18 | |
| 2024-02-29 | The Questions CFTC and Fed Won't Answer Point to a Gold Price Suppression Policy | Precious Metals & Currencies | 2024-03-01 | ||
| 2024-02-06 | TN | Rep Bud Hulsey Talks Nullification and ... | Nullification, TN | 2024-02-18 | |
| 2023-10-26 | Catherine Austin Fitts, TN legislators discuss Central Bank Digital Currency Nov. 6 in Rogersville | Financial Transaction Integrity | 2023-10-28 | ||
| 2023-12-21 | Bills Filed In Oklahoma & Missouri Would Eliminate Capital Gains Tax On The Sale Of Gold & Silver | Capital Gains Tax | 2023-12-31 | ||
| 2024-02-16 | KY | Kentucky Senate Bill SB217 Introduced to Prohibit Geoengineering | 02-20 - to Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee | KY Stop Geoengineering | 2024-03-23 |