{"id":3531,"date":"2026-01-22T23:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:41:27","slug":"free-market-bill-requires-businesses-to-accept-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/free-market-bill-requires-businesses-to-accept-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Free market? Bill requires businesses to accept cash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">West Virginia Legislature is considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlegislature.gov\/bill_status\/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4060%20intr.htm&amp;yr=2026&amp;sesstype=RS&amp;i=4060\">HB 4060<\/a> that mandates that businesses accept cash. The bill would apply to retail, food and service business, and any businesses offering goods and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019ll be interesting to see if debate takes into consideration safety. In Austin food establishments have been burglarized for the cash on hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdtv.com\/2026\/01\/19\/wva-legislature-introduces-bill-requiring-businesses-accept-cash\/\">WDTV | W.Va. legislature introduces bill requiring businesses to accept cash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia Legislature is considering HB 4060 that mandates that businesses accept cash. The bill would apply to retail, food and service business, and any businesses offering goods and services. It\u2019ll be interesting to see if debate takes into consideration safety. In Austin food establishments have been burglarized for the cash on hand. WDTV | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}