VISIT USA Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Transfers $160 million from existing Travel Promotion Fund balances to Brand USA and exempts the transfer from the usual statutory cap.
Who Benefits and How
Brand USA and the travel sector could receive a large infusion of marketing funds to promote travel to the United States.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal balances in the Travel Promotion Fund would be drawn down to finance the transfer.
Key Provisions
- Requires Treasury to transfer $160 million in specified unobligated Travel Promotion Fund balances to Brand USA within 30 days.
- Exempts the transfer from the normal statutory limitation on the fund.
- Applies existing Travel Promotion Act conditions to the transferred amount.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Transfers $160 million from existing Travel Promotion Fund balances to Brand USA and exempts the transfer from the usual statutory cap.
Key Policy Areas
Trade, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Transfers $160 million from existing Travel Promotion Fund balances to Brand USA and exempts the transfer from the usual statutory cap.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Brand USA and the travel sector benefiting from additional promotion spending
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal Travel Promotion Fund balances used to finance the transfer
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Sullivan (for himself, Ms. Klobuchar, Mrs. Capito, and Ms. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Brand USA and travel-promotion activities financed by the transfer
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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