Payment Choice Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Jul 17, 2025
What it does
The Payment Choice Act of 2025 would require brick-and-mortar retail businesses that accept in-person payments to accept cash for transactions up to $500 and prohibit them from charging cash-paying customers higher prices than non-cash customers. The bill includes limited exceptions for temporary system failures, insufficient change, or cash-to-prepaid card conversion devices that meet specific consumer-protection criteria, and allows businesses to refuse $50 or larger bills for five years after enactment, after which the Secretary of the Treasury must issue rules requiring acceptance of $1, $5, $10, and $20 bills. Violations could result in actual or liquidated damages (minimum $250 if…
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.