Travel Transparency Act

Travel Transparency Act - Makes it an unfair or deceptive practice for an air carrier (including an indirect air carrier), foreign air carrier, a carrier agent, or a ticket agent to advertise or solicit air passenger transportation without disclosing the base airfare ticket costs and user taxes imposed for it. Requires the disclosure of any other government imposed taxes and fees paid on a per passenger basis to be clear and separate from the base airfare ticket cost in any such advertisement or solicitation.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3867 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3867

To amend title 49, United States Code, to require certain air carriers 
 and their agents and ticket agents to disclose certain costs and fees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2012

  Mr. Graves of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Paul, Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. 
   Mulvaney, Mr. Garrett, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Roe of 
Tennessee, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Stutzman, Mr. Quayle, Mr. 
   Schweikert, Mr. Walsh of Illinois, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Posey, Mr. 
 Woodall, Mr. Price of Georgia, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Ribble, and Mr. 
 Gingrey of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
         to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to require certain air carriers 
 and their agents and ticket agents to disclose certain costs and fees.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Travel Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE PRACTICES AND UNFAIR METHODS OF 
              COMPETITION.

    (a) Advertising Practices.--Section 41712 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Advertising Practices.--It shall be an unfair or deceptive 
practice under subsection (a) for an air carrier, including an indirect 
air carrier, a foreign carrier, an agent for either, or a ticket agent 
to advertise or solicit passenger air transportation and fail to 
disclose in the cost of such transportation the sum of the base airfare 
and the tax imposed by section 4261(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
Any other government imposed taxes and fees paid on a per passenger 
basis shall be disclosed clearly and separately from the base airfare 
in any such advertisement or solicitation.''.
    (b) Conforming Regulations.--Upon the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall take such measures as are necessary to change 
section 399.84 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, and any other 
related regulation, to ensure that such regulations comply with the 
section 41712(d) of title 49, United States Code.
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