West Virginia Senate Bill 555 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on February 3 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-03 - To Banking and Insurance
Pending: Senate Banking and Insurance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit banking institutions and payment networks from requiring firearms retailers to adopt a merchant category code or transmit B2B data that would specifically identify the firearms retailer as a retailer of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition. Banking institutions violating this prohibition would receive a 10-point deduction on the technical section of the procurement scoring of the local or State purchasing card contract when bids are tabulated.

Prohibiting banks and payment networks from tracking firearm-related data and outlining penalties

Sen. Ryan Weld [R]	Sen. Patricia Rucker [R]	Sen. Bill Hamilton [R]	Sen. Vince Deeds [R]
Sen. Jack Woodrum [R]	Sen. Mike Stuart [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-03	Senate	To Banking and Insurance
2023-02-03	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2023-02-03	Senate	To Banking and Insurance then Finance
2023-02-03	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB3252 (Similar To) 2023-02-03 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
12	3A	8	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=555&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb555%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=555
Supplement	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=861544945