Section 610.002 - Unauthorized Categorization Of Certain Transactions(a) A person or entity involved in facilitating or processing an electronic payment transaction, including a payment card issuer or payment card network, may not assign to a merchant or require a merchant to use a firearms code. (b) For the purposes of the sale of firearms, ammunition for use in firearms, and firearms accessories, a firearms retailer may not provide a firearms code to a payment card issuer or payment card network and may only use or be assigned a merchant category code for general merchandise retailers or sporting goods retailers. Any agreement or contractual provision to the contrary is void. (c) A payment card issuer or payment card network shall notify the payment card holder in writing on every occasion that a firearms code is assigned to an electronic payment transaction on the payment card holder's account. Tex. Bus. and Comm. Code § 610.002
Added by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 514,Sec. 3, eff. 9/1/2023.