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Committee discusses point-of-sale rounding, required signage and enforcement options
Summary
Legislative counsel and committee members debated whether required notice about optional cash-rounding should appear at the point of sale or store entrance, whether receipts are suitable for notice, and whether weights-and-measures should enforce posting.
The committee considered draft language and statutory examples for consumer-facing notices tied to optional cash-rounding practices.
Cameron Wood of the Office of Legislative Council presented examples from other statutes (health-title notices, cannabis retail flyers, raw-milk signage) and said the Agency of Agriculture's weights-and-measures office could host notice language or check signage at retail locations. Members questioned whether a notice on a receipt — which by definition occurs after the transaction — is an effective disclosure and favored placing signage either at the entrance or the point of sale.
Lawmakers debated whether a business that chooses to round transactions should be required to accept exact cash and whether failing to post required signage should carry a statutory enforcement provision. Some members suggested a graduated enforcement approach (warning first, penalty on repeat violations) if weights-and-measures were made responsible for compliance checks. The committee agreed counsel would draft possible notice language and consider whether posting requirements should create an enforceable violation under the agency's authority.
