Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 116.0002 · Chapter 116. FEES FOR CERTAIN PAYMENT METHODS
FEE FOR CERTAIN PAYMENTS BY PAPER CHECK PROHIBITED.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person that makes a payment to a payee may not charge an additional fee to the payee because the payee elects to receive the payment by paper check instead of by an automated clearinghouse transaction or other electronic funds transfer.
(b) A provision in a contract permitting a person to charge or collect a fee from a payee in violation of Subsection (a) is void and unenforceable.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 230 (H.B. 876), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.116.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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