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Rep. Ted Hill seeks to bar financial tracking of firearm purchases; bill would impose $10,000 penalty per violation
Summary
Rep. Ted Hill introduced RS 32,273 to extend prior Second Amendment legislation by prohibiting financial institutions from using merchant data that could track firearms and ammunition purchases; the draft would create a $10,000 injunction penalty for violations, sponsor said.
Representative Ted Hill (District 14, Eagle and Emmett) told the committee RS 32,273 would expand second-amendment protections by prohibiting financial institutions from using merchant codes or other tracking tied to firearm or ammunition purchases.
"What it does is adds the prohibition of financial institutions and not just the big credit card companies that track unique credit card codes for firearm retailers," Hill said, adding the sponsor's intent is to stop what he described as a "backdoor surveillance event."
Hill said the 2022 effort focused on credit-card companies and that RS 32,273 would extend prohibitions to banks and other financial firms; the draft text would allow a civil injunction and includes a $10,000 penalty for each violation, Hill said.
Representative Barbieri asked whether the draft was limited to credit cards; Hill agreed debit cards and other payment methods processed by financial institutions would be covered. The transcript records the committee motion to introduce RS 32,273; the motion carried on a voice vote with no roll-call tallies recorded in the excerpt.
The transcript does not include final statutory language, targeted statute citations, or a full fiscal note.
