One Fair Price Act of 2025
Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill prohibits surveillance-based price setting for substantially similar products and services, subject to limited exceptions, and applies that prohibition to air carriers and ticket agents.
Who Benefits and How
Consumers could gain protection against individualized prices derived from surveillance data, and state or federal enforcers could pursue violations, including in air travel pricing.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Businesses using surveillance-informed pricing, including airlines and ticket agents, would face new restrictions, disclosure expectations, and exposure to enforcement or private claims.
Key Provisions
- Makes surveillance-based price setting generally unlawful, subject to exceptions for reasonable cost differences, broad discounts, and certain loyalty programs with disclosures.
- Treats violations as FTC Act violations and applies the prohibition specifically to airlines and ticket agents.
- Preserves damages, injunctive, and state-government enforcement pathways for certain airline-related claims.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill prohibits surveillance-based price setting for substantially similar products and services, subject to limited exceptions, and applies that prohibition to air carriers and ticket agents.
Key Policy Areas
Consumer Protection, Technology, Transportation
Primary Purpose
This bill prohibits surveillance-based price setting for substantially similar products and services, subject to limited exceptions, and applies that prohibition to air carriers and ticket agents.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Consumers protected from surveillance-based price discrimination
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Businesses, including airlines and ticket agents, that use surveillance-informed pricing practices
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Gallego introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
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.
Air travelers and state enforcers able to pursue remedies for unlawful surveillance-based pricing, Businesses that use surveillance-informed individualized pricing for consumers, Consumers protected against surveillance-based price discrimination
Positive-direction: Air travelers and state enforcers able to pursue remedies for unlawful surveillance-based pricing, Consumers protected against surveillance-based price discrimination
Negative-direction: Businesses that use surveillance-informed individualized pricing for consumers
Air carriers and ticket agents barred from using surveillance-based price setting
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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