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    <item congress="118" measure-type="s" measure-number="4212" measure-id="id118s4212" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2024-12-05" update-date="2025-08-21">
        <title>American Music Tourism Act of 2024</title>
        <summary summary-id="id118s4212v55" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2025-08-21">
            <action-date>2024-12-05</action-date>
            <action-desc>Passed Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>American Music Tourism Act of 2024</strong></p><p>This bill directs the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) of the Department of Commerce to promote tourism to music-related and sports attractions.</p><p>The bill requires NTTO to promote domestic and international travel and tourism to&nbsp;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&nbsp;promotion of international travel and tourism to such activities in the United States.</p><p>NTTO must report its activities and findings to Congress within one year after the bill's enactment and, thereafter, every two years.</p>]]></summary-text>
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