Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4640 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4640 To prohibit certain uses of algorithmic decision systems to inform individualized prices and wages, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 23, 2025 Mr. Casar (for himself and Ms. Tlaib) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To prohibit certain uses of algorithmic decision systems to inform individualized prices and wages, and for other purposes. 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 ``Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SURVEILLANCE-BASED PRICE SETTING. (a) Surveillance-Based Price Setting.-- (1) General prohibition.--A person may not engage in surveillance-based price setting. If each condition in paragraph (2) is met, any of the following is not surveillance- based price setting: (A) A difference in price is based solely on reasonable costs associated with providing the good or service to different consumers. (B) A discounted price is offered to members of a broadly defined group, including teachers, veterans, senior citizens, or students, based on publicly disclosed eligibility criteria. (C) A discounted price is offered through a loyalty, membership, or rewards program that consumers affirmatively enrolled in, including signing up for a mailing list, registering for promot