Protection of Identifying Financial Information (card receipt truncation)
Texas Card Receipt Law
Financial · Data security
Bars printing more than the last four digits of a card number, or the expiration date, on receipts given to cardholders. Handwritten or imprinted receipts are exempt.
- Where
- Texas
- Citation
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 502.002
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 2009-04-01
- Enforced by
- Texas Attorney General or county prosecuting attorney
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- Civil penalty up to $500 per calendar month of violation, plus attorney general injunctions (502.002(d)-(e)).
- Applies to
- Persons that accept credit or debit cards and provide printed receipts (502.002(a))
- Sellers and lessors of receipt-printing machines (502.002(c))
What a privacy notice must say
- Sellers or lessors of receipt-printing machines must notify buyers of the truncation requirement.Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 502.002(c)
Practices it requires
- Print no more than the last four digits of a card number and no expiration date on cardholder receipts.Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 502.002(a)
Sources
- Official text
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 502 (Texas Legislature, Texas Constitution and Statutes)
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 502, statute text file served by the Texas Legislative Council
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-24 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Research reference, not legal advice.