The U.S. will promote travel to music venues and events.
S. 195 — American Music Tourism Act of 2025 · Filed by Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) · 5 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 22, 2025 · Passed both chambers
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What it does
The bill tells the U.S. to promote travel to music places and events. These include music museums, recording studios, concert venues, and music shows. The U.S. will promote these places inside America and to people from other countries. Congress will get a report every two years on progress.
Who it affects
Hotels, concert venues, music shows, and tourism boards may see more visitors. Rural areas with music places may get more travel.
One thing to notice
The bill creates a new job: tracking and promoting music travel. The U.S. will collect facts about music travel every two years.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
5 cosponsors: 3 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
- Jan 22, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jan 22, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation”
- Feb 5, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably”
- May 14, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2933; text: CR S2933)”
- Sep 15, 2026 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote”
- Sep 15, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Guthrie 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
5 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $1,000,778 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 12 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 78% of bills with any report.
Marsha Blackburn, who sponsored the bill, received $133,620 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- U.S. Travel Association — $800,000 in 1 report
- Recording Academy — $120,778 in 1 report
- National Independent Venue Association — $60,000 in 2 reports
- American Symphony Orchestra League - Dba League of American Orchestras — $10,000 in 1 report
- Opera America — $10,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- rural areas — Places outside cities and towns with smaller populations.
- promote — To help something become more popular or well-known.
- 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 (2,949 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 14,342 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 2026-09-18.
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