Payment Choice Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 26
- Latest action
- Feb 7, 2025
What it does
Payment Choice Act of 2025 This bill requires retail businesses to accept cash as a form of payment for on-site sales of $500 or less and it prohibits them from charging cash-paying customers a higher price compared to customers not paying with cash. Businesses covered by this bill are those engaged in the business of selling or offering goods or services at retail to the public that accept in-person payments at a physical location. The bill establishes exceptions for this requirement, including by allowing a business to provide a device to provide prepaid cards on site for customers to use as payment. Among other requirements, such a card must not have a fee associated with its use and…
Official summary · Introduced in House · Feb 7, 2025
Titles and provisions can change as the bill moves.
Where it stands
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What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- John Rose
- Bill Huizenga
- Brad Sherman
- Chrissy Houlahan
- Christopher Smith
- Cleo Fields
- David Kustoff
- David Taylor
- Donald Norcross
- Ed Case
- Emanuel Cleaver
- Garland Barr
- Glenn Ivey
- Gregory Meeks
- Jefferson Van Drew
- John Rutherford
- Josh Gottheimer
- Joyce Beatty
- Maria Salazar
- Marlin Stutzman
- Nikema Williams
- Pete Sessions
- Sylvia Garcia
- Thomas Kean
- Tim Moore
- Warren Davidson
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.