More States Introduce Sound Money Legislation

Efforts to introduce sound money bills in state legislatures have been mentioned on this blog before, notably in the link to New Hampshires Gold Money Bill and, most recently, in this post on Indiana's Honest Money Act.

It seems the movement toward constitutional money is spreading, at least among the States, as reported in an article at GoldSeek.com titled Sound Money at the State Level, by a GoldSeek reader calling himself or herself Oz.

The article lists the following states together with links for more information on the legislation:

New Hampshire
Indiana
Colorado
Missouri
Georgia
Maryland
Nevada (Where the bill failed, apparently because the state was going to coin its own money, action prohibited by Article I Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution.)

The GoldSeek.com article may be found at the link here.

Not mentioned in the above article is Washington State's House Joint Memorial 4010, introduced on January 30, which, like Maryland's, essentially begs the federal government to adhere to the Constitution by restoring circulating gold and silver coin and abolishing the Federal Reserve System. Something more along the lines of the New Hampshire bill would be preferable, but at least it's a (tiny) step in the right direction.