[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1169 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 1169

 To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit issuers of credit cards 
   from limiting the ability of Federal, State, and local government 
   agencies to impose fees for honoring credit cards, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 1995

  Mr. Moran introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Banking and Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit issuers of credit cards 
   from limiting the ability of Federal, State, and local government 
   agencies to impose fees for honoring credit cards, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ACCEPTANCE OF CREDIT CARDS BY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 2 of the Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. 
1631 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 138. Acceptance of credit cards by governmental agencies
    ``(a) Prohibition on Limiting Ability To Impose Fees.--A card 
issuer shall not prohibit or otherwise limit the ability of Federal, 
State, or local governmental agencies to impose on the user of a credit 
card issued by the card issuer a fee for honoring the credit card.
    ``(b) Limitation on Amount of Fees.--A Federal, State, or local 
governmental agency shall not impose, for the use of a credit card to 
make a payment to the agency, any fee that is in excess of any amount 
that the agency is required to pay for that use to the card issuer.
    ``(c) Limitation on Payments for Which Fee May Be Imposed.--A 
Federal, State, or local governmental agency shall not impose a fee for 
the use of a credit card to make a payment to the agency, other than a 
payment of--
            ``(1) a tax;
            ``(2) a fine or other criminal or civil penalty;
            ``(3) a motor vehicle or other registration fee; or
            ``(4) a fee charged for the performance of any other 
        inherently governmental function.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
that chapter is amended by adding at the end the following:

``138. Acceptance of credit cards by governmental agencies.''.
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