Payment Choice Act of 2025
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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:
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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
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- financial institutions, investors, and borrowers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- financial institutions, investors, and borrowers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Cramer (for himself and Mr. Fetterman) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …
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?
- "the_secretary"
- → The Secretary identified in the operative section
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