Hotels must show the full price before customers book.
H.R. 1479 — Hotel Fees Transparency Act of 2025 · Filed by Young Kim (R-CA) · 6 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 21, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
Hotels and rental websites must display the total price upfront. The price must appear in ads and at booking start. All required fees must be included in that total. Hotels cannot hide fees until checkout. The FTC and state attorneys general can enforce this rule. Companies have 450 days to follow the new rule.
Who it affects
People booking hotels and rentals can see the real total cost before they decide to buy. Hotels and websites can still charge fees. They must show fees early.
One thing to notice
Websites that book hotels may need real-time fee data from hotels. State attorneys general can sue for violations alongside the FTC.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
6 cosponsors: 4 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
- Feb 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 21, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
- Apr 8, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Apr 8, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote”
- Apr 28, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1647-1649)”
- Apr 28, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Bilirakis moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
16 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 28 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $9,810,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 4 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 95% of bills with any report.
Young Kim, who sponsored the bill, received $1,618,312 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- AARP — $5,300,000 in 1 report
- American Hotel & Lodging Association — $1,680,000 in 2 reports
- U.S. Travel Association — $800,000 in 1 report
- Six Continents Hotels, Inc. — $560,000 in 2 reports
- Booking Holdings Inc. — $360,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- FTC — The Federal Trade Commission, a government agency that stops unfair business practices.
- state attorneys general — The top lawyers for each state who can sue to enforce laws.
- total price — The full cost including all required fees, not just the base price.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (11,992 characters) on Jul 25, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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