Bill Text: TX HB244 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 244 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to requiring photo identification for credit card purchases.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-04 - Left pending in committee [HB244 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB244-Introduced.html

	83R395 CLG-D

	By: Menendez	H.B. No. 244



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to requiring photo identification for credit card
	purchases.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 11, Business & Commerce Code,
	is amended by adding Chapter 506 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 506. REQUIRING VERIFICATION OF IDENTITY FOR CREDIT CARD
	PURCHASES
	Sec. 506.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
	(1) "Cardholder" means the person named on the face of
	a credit card to whom or for whose benefit the card is issued.
	(2) "Credit card" means a card or device issued under
	an agreement by which the issuer gives to a cardholder the right to
	obtain credit from the issuer or another person.
	(3) "Merchant" means a person in the business of
	selling or leasing goods or services.
	(4) "Photo identification" means a card or other
	document that:
	(A) is issued by a governmental entity to
	identify an individual; and
	(B) displays a photograph of the individual
	identified on the card or other document.
	Sec. 506.002. REQUIRING PHOTO IDENTIFICATION FOR CREDIT
	CARD TRANSACTION. (a) A merchant may not accept a credit card for
	payment in a face-to-face transaction unless the merchant requires
	the individual presenting the credit card to provide photo
	identification verifying the individual's identity as the
	cardholder.
	(b) Subsection (a) does not apply if the merchant requires
	the individual presenting the credit card for payment to provide
	the individual's zip code to verify the individual's identity as
	authorized by Section 505.002.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.