On the recordJune 15, 2022
I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: TITLE VI--PAYMENT CHOICE SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE. This subtitle may be cited as the ``Payment Choice Act of 2022''. SEC. 602. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that every consumer has the right to use cash at retail businesses who accept in-person payments. SEC. 603. RETAIL BUSINESSES PROHIBITED FROM REFUSING CASH PAYMENTS. (a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``Sec. 5104. Retail businesses prohibited from refusing cash payments. ``(a) In General.--Any person engaged in the business of selling or offering goods or services at retail to the public with a person accepting in-person payments at a physical location (including a person accepting payments for telephone, mail, or internet-based transactions who is accepting in-person payments at a physical location)-- ``(1) shall accept cash as a form of payment for sales of less than $2,000 (or, for loan payments, payments made on a loan with an original principal amount of less than $2,000) made at such physical location; and ``(2) may not charge cash-paying customers a higher price compared to the price charged to customers not paying with cash.…
