Senate Bill sb1020

    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 1020

    By Senator Burt





    16-506-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to payment-card transactions;

  3         providing restrictions on the information that

  4         may be printed on receipts for certain

  5         payment-card transactions; providing penalties;

  6         providing an effective date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  Restrictions on information printed on

11  receipts for payment-card transactions; penalties.--

12         (1)  As used in this section, the term:

13         (a)  "Cardholder" means the person or organization

14  named on the face of a payment card to whom or for whose

15  benefit the payment card is issued.

16         (b)  "Merchant" means a person who receives from a

17  cardholder a payment card, or information from a payment card,

18  as the instrument for obtaining, purchasing, or receiving

19  goods, services, money, or anything else of value from the

20  person.

21         (c)  "Payment card" means a credit card, charge card,

22  debit card, or any other card that is issued to a cardholder

23  and that allows the cardholder to obtain, purchase, or receive

24  goods, services, money, or anything else of value from a

25  merchant.

26         (2)  A merchant who accepts a payment card for the

27  transaction of business may not print more than the last five

28  digits of the payment card's account number or print the

29  payment card's expiration date on a receipt provided to the

30  cardholder. This subsection applies only to receipts described

31  in subsection (3) and does not apply to a transaction in which

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    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 1020
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  1  the sole means of recording the payment card's account number

  2  or expiration date is by handwriting or by an imprint or copy

  3  of the payment card.

  4         (3)(a)  Effective July 1, 2003, this section applies to

  5  receipts that are electronically printed using a cash register

  6  or other machine or device that is first used on or after July

  7  1, 2003.

  8         (b)  Effective July 1, 2005, this section applies to

  9  all receipts that are electronically printed, including those

10  printed using a cash register or other machine or device that

11  is first used before July 1, 2003.

12         (4)  A merchant who violates this section commits a

13  noncriminal violation as defined in section 775.08, Florida

14  Statutes, punishable by a fine of $250 for the first violation

15  and $1,000 for a second or subsequent violation in accordance

16  with section 775.083, Florida Statutes.

17         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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20                          SENATE SUMMARY

21    Prohibits merchants from printing more than the last five
      digits of a payment card's account number, and from
22    printing the card expiration date, on receipts provided
      to cardholders. Phases in the applicability of the
23    restriction to older electronic printing machines.

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