Journey and tourism isn’t on the high of Congress’ agenda, which this month is dominated by debate over the President Donald Trump-backed “massive, stunning” tax and spending invoice.
However that doesn’t imply that lawmakers aren’t making an attempt to make legal guidelines that will straight have an effect on the resort, lodging, air journey, and cruise industries.
Listed here are seven such federal payments to observe heading into the summer time:
1: Resort Charges Transparency Act of 2025
Launched by Rep. Younger Kim (R-Calif.), this bipartisan invoice targets “unfair and misleading promoting of costs for resort rooms and different locations of short-term lodging.”
Invoice co-sponsors embrace Reps. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), Russell Fry (R-S.C.), Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.), Craig Goldman (R-Texas), Eugene Vindman (D-Va.) and André Carson (D-Ind.).
The invoice mandates that lodges and short-term rental suppliers should:
Show the “whole companies worth, if a worth is displayed, in any commercial, advertising, or worth listing wherever the lined companies are displayed, marketed, marketed, or supplied on the market.”
Disclose “the overall companies worth on the time the lined companies are first exhibited to [an] particular person and anytime thereafter all through the lined companies buying course of.”
Disclose earlier than a remaining buy “any tax, price, or evaluation imposed by any authorities entity, quasi-government entity, or government-created particular district or program on the sale of lined companies.”
The invoice handed the U.S. Home on a voice vote in April.
The U.S. Senate is now contemplating the measure. There, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has launched a Senate model of the Resort Charges and Transparency Act of 2025, which is co-sponsored by Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Shelley Moore Capi
