S2326-119

In Committee

Payment Choice Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Jul 17, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Payment Choice Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting financial institutions, investors, and borrowers. The main policy domain is Finance, Government Operations, Trade.

Who Benefits and How

financial institutions, investors, and borrowers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, financial institutions, investors, and borrowers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Payment Choice Act of 2025.
  • Section id620bdc0379d3408297e87f1102f73e0f: 2. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that United States currency should be treated as legal tender throughout the United States, and that every...
  • Section id0c129f39714645069472b909ed629526: 3. Retail businesses prohibited from refusing cash payments Subchapter I of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the...
  • Section id0ed31850435945eaae5e96aef2da7ee2: 5104. Retail businesses prohibited from refusing cash payments Any person engaged in the business of selling or offering goods or services at retail to the...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Payment Choice Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting financial institutions, investors, and borrowers.

Key Policy Areas

Finance, Government Operations, Trade

Primary Purpose

This bill, Payment Choice Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting financial institutions, investors, and borrowers.

Policy Domains

Finance Government Operations Trade

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • financial institutions, investors, and borrowers
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financial institutions, investors, and borrowers:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • financial institutions, investors, and borrowers
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federal implementing agencies:
financial institutions, investors, and borrowers:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jul 17, 2025

Mr. Cramer (for himself and Mr. Fetterman) introduced the following …

Jul 17, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …

Jul 17, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Finance Government Operations Trade
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ The Secretary identified in the operative section

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