Music-Related Legislation Before Congress Right Now: Full List of Bills (UPDATING)

A Billboard está acompanhando todas as propostas que podem impactar a indústria musical durante o 119º Congresso.

There are a handful of pending bills before the 119th Congress that are being closely watched by the music industry. These pieces of federal legislation could affect artists, consumers and companies across many different areas of the business, including songwriting, licensing, tourism, royalties, ticketing and live performances.

Muitos desses projetos de lei têm apoio bipartidário tanto de democratas quanto de republicanos no Congresso, e os atores da indústria têm estado fortemente envolvidos na defesa de sua aprovação: The Recording Academy e a Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) assinaram muitas delas, assim como gigantes corporativos como as grandes gravadoras e a Live Nation.

O processo legislativo é longo e, por vezes, difícil de decifrar. Muitas propostas de lei são apresentadas mais de uma vez ao longo dos anos, frequentemente com versões diferentes no Senado e na Câmara dos Deputados.

There are committee reviews, hearings and revisions before a bill makes it to the floor for a congressional vote and, eventually if passed, the desk of the president to be signed into law.

In the interest of compiling all the information in one place, Billboard has put together a list of all the music-related legislation currently before the 119th Congress.

Below, you can read about the history behind each bill, who supports it and what impact it would have on the industry. We’re keeping track of developments for each piece of proposed legislation, and this list will update as bills move through the House and Senate.

We’ll also add new bills as they’re introduced and tell you why they matter for the music business.

First introduced in 2022, the Restoring Artistic Protection (RAP) Act aims to limit the use of rap lyrics in federal prosecutions. It’s long been controversial to cite lyrics as evidence of a crime, but the prosecutorial strategy has received a spotlight in recent years as it’s been wielded against high-profile rappers like Young Thug, Gunna and Lil Durk.

A Lei RAP foi reintroduzida em 2023 e depois novamente na Câmara em julho de 2025, após o qual foi encaminhada ao Comitê de Justiça da Câmara. Co-patrocinada pelos representantes.

Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.), the RAP Act has wide support within the music industry. The Recording Academy and RIAA have thrown their weight behind the bill, as have Warner Music Group (WMG), Universal Music Group (UMG) and Live Nation.

O Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act é a tentativa do Congresso de proteger artistas de deepfakes de inteligência artificial (IA).

This legislation would turn a person’s digital likeness into a form of intellectual property, allowing artists to license out these rights and sue those that publish deepfakes without their consent.

O NO FAKES Act foi apresentado pela primeira vez em 2024 e depois revisto duas vezes — uma em abril de 2025 e outra em maio de 2026. A versão atualizada do projeto de lei, tanto na Câmara quanto no Senado, inclui disposições adicionais de notificação e remoção que poderiam isolar sites de hospedagem de responsabilidade – e plataformas como YouTube e Spotify agora estão a bordo como apoiadores.

The proposed law cleared a major hurdle in June 2026, when it was unanimously endorsed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The next step will be a full Senate vote.

The music industry’s major players have supported NO FAKES, including the Recording Academy, RIAA, WMG, UMG and Sony. The bills are sponsored in the Senate by Sens.

Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), Thom Tillis (R-N. C.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.); and in the House by Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), Madeleine Dean (D-Penn.) Nathaniel Moran (R-Tex.), Becca Balint (D-Vt.) and Joe Morelle (D-N.

The American Music Tourism Act was first introduced in 2024 and returned to Congress in January 2025. The proposed legislation aims to boost music-related travel and tourism in the U.

S. ao dirigir o Departamento de Comércio a elaborar um plano para a promoção de locais como Graceland e o Grammy Museum. A legislação tem amplo apoio em ambas as câmaras do Congresso.

Versions passed the House in April 2025 and the Senate in May 2025, then the House approved a final version in September 2026. The bill now heads to the desk of President Donald Trump for his signature.

The proposal was introduced in the Senate by Blackburn and Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), and in the House by Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) and Nanette Barragán (D-Calif.).

É apoiado por organizações da indústria como a Recording Academy, RIAA e National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), além de famosos sites de música, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame e a Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

Legislators and music industry players have been trying for decades to pass a law requiring terrestrial radio stations to pay performance royalties to artists and record labels.

The latest version of this proposed law was introduced in 2021 as the American Music Fairness Act, which has since been re-introduced twice. Most recently brought back to both the House and Senate in January 2025, the bills aim to close a loophole that allows AM/FM radio stations in the U.

S. to only pay publishing royalties – unlike satellite radio stations and online streamers, which have to compensate both songwriters and performers when they plan a track.

Os projetos de lei foram encaminhados para as comissões de Judiciário de ambas as câmaras. A subcomissão de propriedade intelectual da Comissão de Judiciário do Senado realizou uma audiência em dezembro de 2025, durante a qual o guitarrista do KISS Gene Simmons declarou que é “não-americano” não apoiar a legislação.

The American Music Fairness act is co-sponsored in the Senate by Blackburn, Tillis and Sens. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N. J.), and in the House by Reps.

Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Jerry Nadler (D-N. Y.). It’s supported by the Recording Academy, RIAA, SoundExchange and the American Federation of Musicians.

The Mitigating Automated Internet Networks (MAIN) for Event Ticketing Act, initially introduced in 2023, aims to beef up enforcement of President Obama’s Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act.

This legislation would create new reporting and security requirements for online ticket sellers to combat automated bots that jump the line ahead of human buyers.

Bills were reintroduced in the Senate in January 2025 and the House in April 2025. The proposed legislation has been approved by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and it is now headed to the floors of both chambers.

As propostas são patrocinadas no Senado por Blackburn e pelo Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D‑N. M.), e na Câmara por Harshbarger e pelo Rep. Troy A. Carter Sr. (D‑La.). Elas receberam apoio da Recording Academy, RIAA, Live Nation e da National Independent Venue Association (NIVA).

The Transparency in Charges for Key Events Ticketing (TICKET) Act was first introduced in 2023 with the aim of reforming the ticket-buying process for concertgoers.

The proposed legislation would increase pricing transparency by requiring event promoters to clearly and prominently display a ticket’s full price, including fees and taxes, before checkout.

The legislation passed the House in 2024 but died at the end of the 118th congressional term. Versions were reintroduced in the Senate in January 2025 and the House in February 2025, and it passed the House again in April 2025.

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved its bill the same month, and it’s now headed to the Senate floor. The bills were introduced in the Senate by Sens.

Ed Markey (D-Mass.) e Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) e na Câmara pelos Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) e Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.). Os apoiadores incluem a Recording Academy, Live Nation, Vivid Seats e StubHub.

A prior version of this list incorrectly stated that NIVA supports the TICKET Act. The error has been corrected.

First introduced in 2021 and re-introduced again twice in the years since, the Protecting Outdoor Concerts Act would create an avenue for the Federal Aviation Administration to restrict the airspace around outdoor music festivals and concerts.

Right now, the law allows major sporting events to apply for these sorts of low-flying plane restrictions, but organizers of music events cannot do the same. The bill was most recently introduced to the House in April 2025 by Rep.

Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) e foi encaminhado ao Comitê da Câmara de Transporte e Infraestrutura. Ruiz, cujo distrito inclui o Vale de Coachella, na Califórnia, citou riscos de segurança causados por aviões voando em baixa altitude ao redor dos festivais de música Coachella e Stagecoach.

The Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act, first introduced in the Senate in 2024, would create a legal avenue for musicians and other creators to find out if their work was used to train a generative AI model without a license.

Technically speaking, the bill would allow artists to subpoena AI developers for their training data through a process similar to one that already exists to combat internet piracy.

O TRAIN Act foi reintroduzido no Senado em julho de 2025 por Blackburn e Sens. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) e Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), e introduzido pela primeira vez na Câmara em janeiro de 2026 por Dean e Moran.

The bill, which is endorsed by the RIAA and the Recording Academy, has been referred to both chambers’ Judiciary Committees.

Schiff then teamed up with Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) to reintroduce the proposal, renamed the CLEAR Act, in February 2026.

O Protect Working Musicians Act (PWMA) permitiria que músicos independentes se unissem e negociassem coletivamente licenças com empresas de IA e plataformas de streaming.

In technical terms, the bill aims to achieve this by exempting indie artists from antitrust scrutiny over group bargaining. Similar exemptions already exist for Major League Baseball, as well as for farmers and agricultural producers.

The PWMA was first introduced in 2021 with a focus on streaming royalties, then it was re-tooled in 2023 to address AI. The PWMA was once again introduced in the House in May 2026 by Reps.

Deborah Ross (D‑N. C.), Steve Cohen (D‑Texas) e Lloyd Doggett (D‑Texas). Foi encaminhado ao Comitê de Justiça da Câmara.

Supporters of the PWMA include the Recording Academy, NMPA, A2IM and Music Artists Coalition.

The AI Labeling Act would require that AI-generated content, including audio, include a watermark disclosing the use of the technology. The onus would be on AI companies and social media platforms to create these tags.

Versões do projeto de lei foram apresentadas pela primeira vez tanto na Câmara quanto no Senado em 2023, mas não avançaram. Foi reintroduzido no Senado em junho de 2026 pelos Sens.

Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), John Curtis (R-Utah), and Mark Warner (D-Va.). Music industry supporters include Music Creators North America, the Society of Composers and Lyricists and the Songwriters Guild of America.

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