American Music Tourism Act Awaits President’s Signature After Unanimous House Vote

With a unanimous vote of the House Tuesday night, the American Music Tourism Act is a step closer to becoming law.

The bill has bounced around the Capitol for years, with a version of it included in a draft of a federal funding bill late in President Joe Biden’s term, though it was stripped from the final version of the continuing resolution. The current version was first introduced in the House in April 2025 with a Senate companion passing a few weeks later. The House, after more than year, finally agreed to adopt the Senate version Tuesday, sending it to the desk of President Donald Trump.

The bill directs the National Travel and Tourism Office of the Department of Commerce to promote domestic and international travel and tourism to U.S. music festivals, concert venues and other music-related attractions and locations and expands the office’s mandate to facilitate sports and recreation events and activities to include the promotion of international travel and tourism to such activities in the United States.

NTTO must report its activities and findings to Congress within one year after the bill’s enactment and, thereafter, every two years.

“Independent venues and festivals are the lifeblood of local communities, not just as cultural hubs but as powerful engines of economic activity,” Stephen Parker, Executive Director of NIVA, said in a statement. “Fans travel for them. They book hotels, fill restaurants, and shop on Main Street because a show is happening that night. The American Music Tourism Act is a jobs bill. We are thrilled the House and Senate have prioritized driving domestic and foreign visitors to the nation’s music attractions and independent stages. Now, we encourage the President to sign it and give the country its first national strategy for music tourism. It is a bipartisan policy that treats live music as the economic asset it already is.”

The bill was sponsored by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) in the Senate and Reps. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) and Nanette Barragán (D-CA) in the House.

_Originally reported by [Pollstar](https://news.pollstar.com/2026/09/16/american-music-tourism-act-heads-to-presidents-desk/)._