3.0.0 916 2025-12-05T09:13:37Z 2025-12-05T09:13:37Z Senate S S 2023-03-22 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/916 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-03-22T15:53:43Z 118 2463 HR 2023-04-14 Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce. Identical bill CRS 2023-03-22 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2023-03-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT N W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2023-03-22 True C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2023-04-18 False Commerce Commerce 2023-04-25T15:15:29Z

00 2023-03-22 Introduced in Senate 2024-02-05T19:06:48Z <p><b>Junk Fee Prevention Act</b></p> <p>This bill establishes requirements related to the fees charged by specified covered businesses, including those providing short-term lodging, ticketing services, internet service, mobile service, or video programming. It also requires air carriers to seat each young child next to an accompany adult during flights.</p> <p>Specifically, businesses providing short-term lodging or ticketing services must display the total price (including mandatory fees) of the offered good or service in each advertisement and when the price is first shown to the consumer. Further, ticketing services must (1) disclose any guarantee or refund policy for an event before the transaction is completed, and (2) disclose when they do not possess the ticket for an event at the time of sale. The bill also prohibits excessive or deceptive mandatory fees and provides the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general authority to enforce these requirements.</p> <p>Additionally, the bill prohibits internet service, mobile service, or video programming providers from charging excessive or unreasonable termination fees. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) also must conduct a rulemaking to consider requiring such providers to disclose mandatory fees or prohibiting the services from imposing mandatory fees. The bill provides the FCC authority to enforce these requirements.</p> <p>Finally, the bill establishes requirements for air carriers to seat each child who is age 13 or younger next to an accompanying adult, subject to limited exceptions. The bill also requires air carriers to provide specified alternatives or a full refund in the event that such seating is not available. </p>

Display Title 45 2024-07-24T15:22:41Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 2024-05-24T13:40:55Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 2024-02-07T09:08:40Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s916is/xml/BILLS-118s916is.xml 2023-03-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.