Our Areas of Focus

Automated systems already screen job applicants, price insurance, flag benefits claims, and inform policing. State law decides whether you are told a machine decided, and whether you can contest it.

Whether a blockchain record counts as a legal record for things like property deeds, vehicle titles, and signed agreements. Until a state says so explicitly, those records live in a grey zone that courts have to resolve one case at a time.

If a company holds tokens on your behalf and then fails, state custody law decides whether those assets are yours or belong to the creditors. That distinction is worth everything in a bankruptcy and almost nothing until one happens.

Whether you can hold your own private keys, what happens at tax time when you sell, and which businesses must be licensed before taking your money. State law decides all three, and Pennsylvania has not settled any of them.

A token marketed as a dollar is only worth a dollar if something real backs it and you can actually redeem it. State reserve and attestation rules are what turn that promise into an obligation.

Whether Pennsylvania businesses must keep accepting cash, and whether a state agency could ever require a digital currency for payments or benefits. These bills are usually about preserving alternatives rather than adopting anything.

Large computing facilities draw serious power, and who pays for that shows up on residential electricity bills and in grid reliability during peak demand. Siting, noise, and tax treatment are all decided at state and local level.

How quickly you have to be told your data leaked, and what protection is required for the water, power, school, and hospital systems you depend on. Ransomware against Pennsylvania public bodies is a recurring event, not a hypothetical.

Which non-bank lenders and payment apps can operate here, under what consumer protections, and whether a company can test a product on residents before the usual rules apply. Sandbox bills are exactly that question.