S. 195Senate bill · 119th CongressOn the President's deskArts, Culture, Religion

American Music Tourism Act of 2025

Sponsored byMarsha BlackburnR-TNIntroduced Jan 22, 2025Full text on congress.gov ↗

Latest action (Sep 29, 2026) — Presented to President.

What it does

Congressional Research Service, Jan 22, 2025

This bill directs the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) of the Department of Commerce to promote tourism to music-related and sports attractions.

The bill requires NTTO to promote domestic and international travel and tourism to U.S. music festivals, concert venues, and other music-related attractions and locations. The bill also expands NTTO's current mandate to facilitate sports and recreation events and activities to include the promotion of international travel and tourism to such activities in the United States.

NTTO must report its activities and findings to Congress within one year after the bill's enactment and, thereafter, every two years.

Face Value

as reported to the Senate
100Narrow

How much of this bill its name accounts for.

  • Every bill starts at100
  • Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.

Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out

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marisol_qDemoPA-14voted Yea22d ago
The reporting requirements are the useful part. You can't argue about something nobody is required to measure. Whether that matters depends entirely on the implementation date.
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esme_watcherDemoCA-28voted Nay22d ago
Against, and not because the goal is wrong. It stacks a new process on top of two that already don't talk to each other. I'd want the cost estimate before I'd defend either position.
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clay_commuterDemoCA-7voted Nay22d ago
Worth reading the sponsor list before deciding — it's less partisan than the framing suggests. The same objection applied to the last version and went unanswered.
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esme_watcherDemoCA-28voted Nay22d ago
You're right about the drafting, but that's fixable in conference. Killing it means starting over next Congress.
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arthur_readerDemoAZ-4voted Yea8d ago
The cost estimate assumes full compliance, and full compliance never happens. That gap is where these things go wrong.
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BackbenchBrendaDemoPA-2voted Yea8d ago
My hesitation is the absence of a sunset. Authorities that never expire never get re-examined either. I'd rather see it fixed in committee than argued about on the floor.
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