Congress Big tech Names the actor class
to prohibit payment card networks and covered entities from requiring the use of or assigning merchant category codes that distinguish a firearms retailer from general-merchandise retailer or sporting-goods retailer
MechanismPayment card networks are the settlement layer every card-accepting platform and marketplace sits on, and a statute telling those networks which merchant category codes they may assign is a statute about how that layer classifies the businesses on it.
So whatWhat payment card networks may require or assign in merchant category codes would be set by statute, so the classification every card-accepting business is sorted into stops being the networks' own to decide.
Scheduled for a votescheduled, and the House can revise it
The House published this measure on the schedule for the week of 22 June 2026. That is a week the House said it may take the measure up, not a date it did. The schedule gets revised, and weeks in this archive have been withdrawn outright.
The text the House posted at docs.house.gov ↗Selection rule: Read by hand from the floor schedule. Found through the rule resolution rather than the bill: H.R. 1181 appears on the calendar as "Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act", which names neither the actor nor the mechanism.
U.S. House of Representatives H. Res. 1377, 119th Congress H. Res. 1377 scheduled 2026-06-22 docs.house.gov ↗ taken up on the schedulesponsored by Rep. Jack, Brian [R-GA-3]
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