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Introduced December 4, 2025 by Richard Blumenthal · Last progress December 4, 2025
The bill increases upfront price transparency and consumer protections across tickets, services, and air travel—making costs easier to compare and reducing surprise fees—while imposing compliance, reporting, and enforcement costs that businesses (and potentially consumers and taxpayers) may ultimately bear.
Consumers (buyers of goods and services, including event-goers and travelers) will see the full total price up front—all mandatory fees and government charges included—reducing surprise costs at checkout.
All consumers will get clearer monthly/recurring bills (single aggregate price line) plus advance notice of the end of promotional pricing, making it easier to compare plans and avoid unexpected bill increases.
Event ticket buyers will be entitled to full refunds (including mandatory fees) when refunds are due or when sellers cannot deliver tickets in time, strengthening consumer protections for live events.
Businesses that rely on separable service fees (hotels, ticket platforms, airlines, secondary sellers) will face meaningful compliance, billing, and IT costs that may be passed on to customers as higher base prices.
Firms could face increased litigation and enforcement risk (FTC, FCC, state parens patriae suits) and potential penalties or restitution costs, raising business legal exposure and costs.
Simpler aggregate pricing requirements could reduce itemized transparency about specific taxes or service components, making some price-feature comparisons harder for consumers who rely on line-by-line detail.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires clearer disclosure of total prices and bans excessive or deceptive mandatory fees for short-term lodging, event ticketing, and other covered sellers; gives the FTC authority to write rules and enforce the prohibitions. Imposes new consumer-billing and refund protections for certain communications services (broadband, voice, mobile, MVPD), directs the FCC to adopt implementing rules, and limits early-termination fees while requiring clear aggregate price displays and advance notice of post-promotion rates. Requires U.S. and foreign air carriers to file quarterly, itemized reports of ancillary-fee revenues and average consumer charges for specified services; the Department of Transportation must publish a consolidated public report with carrier-level comparisons. The bill creates definitions, enforcement pathways, and agency rulemaking responsibilities to improve price transparency and curtail so-called "junk fees."