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Payment Choice Act of 2025
To ensure that United States currency is treated as legal tender to be accepted as payment for purchases of goods and services at brick-and-mortar businesses throughout the United States, and for other purposes.
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Summary
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 must not require a minimum payment of more than $1.
The bill provides for enforcement through preventative relief, damages, and civil penalties.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Feb 7, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
- Feb 7, 2025 Introduced in House
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