Hoosiers soon may be forced to pay a "convenience fee" when using a credit or debit card to pay municipal or utility charges under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Mike Pence.
House Enrolled Act 1145, sponsored by state Rep. Mara Candelaria Reardon, D-Munster, allows local governments and government-owned utilities to charge up to $3 for the convenience of accepting credit or bank cards.
That's on top of the credit card charge those entities can already collect to recover the bank fees they pay on each transaction. The new law authorizes the extra convenience fee, even though most credit card agreements prohibit it.
The pay-to-pay law was among 25 new laws Pence signed late Monday night. He allowed House Enrolled Act 1070, permitting Fishers and Cloverdale to impose a 1 percent food and beverage tax, to become law without his signature.
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