American Music Tourism Act of 2025
Officially: “American Music Tourism Act of 2025” Read the full text
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1Short title
This section states that the Act may be cited as the American Music Tourism Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the American Music Tourism Act of 2025 .
2Responsibilities of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism
This section would amend the Visit America Act in four ways. First, it would add a new domestic travel and tourism duty for the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism: identifying locations and events in the United States that are important to music tourism, and facilitating and promoting domestic travel and tourism to those locations and events. Second, it would replace the Act's provision on facilitating international business and leisure travel so that the Assistant Secretary, working with relevant federal agencies, must strive to increase and facilitate international business and leisure travel to the United States and ensure competitiveness by facilitating large meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions in the United States; emphasizing rural and other destinations in the United States that are rich in cultural heritage or ecological tourism, among other uniquely American destinations, as locations for hosting international meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions; facilitating and promoting international travel and tourism to sports and recreation events and activities in the United States; and identifying locations and events in the United States that are important to music tourism and facilitating and promoting international travel and tourism to those locations and events. Third, it would require the Assistant Secretary, not later than 1 year after this Act becomes law and every 2 years after that, to submit to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce a report of activities, findings, achievements, and vulnerabilities relating to the goals described in subsections (a) through (d) of that section of the Visit America Act. Fourth, it would reorganize the definitions section of the law that contains the Visit America Act (title VI of division BB of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023) so that its existing definition of COVID-19 public health emergency becomes paragraph (1), and it would add a new paragraph (2) defining music tourism to mean either traveling to a State or locality to visit historic or modern-day music-related attractions, including museums, studios, venues of all sizes, and other sites related to music, or traveling to a State or locality to attend a music festival, a concert, or other live musical performance or music-related special event.
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2. Responsibilities of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism (a) Domestic travel and tourism Section 605(b) of the Visit America Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9803(b) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (4) identify locations and events in the United States that are important to music tourism and facilitate and promote domestic travel and tourism to those locations and events. . (b) Facilitation of international business and leisure travel Section 605 of the Visit America Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9803 ) is amended by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following: (d) Facilitation of international business and leisure travel The Assistant Secretary, in coordination with relevant Federal agencies, shall strive to increase and facilitate international business and leisure travel to the United States and ensure competitiveness by— (1) facilitating large meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions in the United States; (2) emphasizing rural and other destinations in the United States that are rich in cultural heritage or ecological tourism, among other uniquely American destinations, as locations for hosting international meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions; (3) facilitating and promoting international travel and tourism to sports and recreation events and activities in the United States; and (4) identifying locations and events in the United States that are important to music tourism and facilitating and promoting international travel and tourism to those locations and events. . (c) Reporting requirements Section 605(f) of the Visit America Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9803(f) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (4) Report on goals relating to domestic and international travel Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the American Music Tourism Act of 2025 , and every 2 years thereafter, the Assistant Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report of activities, findings, achievements, and vulnerabilities relating to the goals described in subsections (a) through (d). . (d) Definition Section 600 of title VI of division BB of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 ( 15 U.S.C. 9801 ) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and adjusting the margins accordingly; (2) by striking In this title, the term COVID–19 public health emergency — and inserting the following: In this title: (1) COVID–19 public health emergency The term COVID–19 public health emergency — ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (2) Music tourism The term music tourism means— (A) the act of traveling to a State or locality to visit historic or modern day music-related attractions, including museums, studios, venues of all sizes, and other sites related to music; or (B) the act of traveling to a State or locality to attend a music festival, a concert, or other live musical performance or music-related special event. .
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