# 119-s-4471: Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act

119-s-4471, Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] (D-WA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-10).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-4471
- Congress: 119
- Title: Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-04-30
- Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] (D-WA)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: Commerce
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-10

## Summary

**This bill would strengthen federal efforts to boost transparency and enforcement** in transportation fuel markets to curb misleading claims and market manipulation. It would expand what counts as transportation fuel, tighten false-information rules and penalties, create a dedicated FTC enforcement unit, and require new DOE data collection and sharing. - Consumers and local officials would get more public data and analyses to help them understand supply and price drivers and spot unexplained price moves. - Refiners, wholesalers, traders, and biofuel producers would face clearer rules. "Transportation fuel" would explicitly include gasoline, distillate fuels like heating oil, jet fuel, aviation gasoline, and biofuels, and the bill raises civil penalties for false statements about supply or output. - Federal regulators would gain new tools to detect cross-market manipulation. The FTC would get a Transportation Fuel Monitoring and Enforcement Unit backed by mandatory DOE surveys and interagency data sharing. The bill authorizes funding for 2026–2031 and requires the FTC to issue a report within 90 days on recent enforcement activity.

## Cosponsors (2)

- Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] (D-CA), 2026-04-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] (D-OR), 2026-04-30T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- New federal fuel watchdog and penalties: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would require the Federal Trade Commission to set up a Transportation Fuel Monitoring and Enforcement Unit. The Unit would collect and archive detailed fuel market data and must get a data-sharing deal with the Energy Information Administration. The bill would broaden the ban o…
- Energy Department surveys fuel markets: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would require the Energy Department to run new surveys of defined "energy companies" for detailed fuel market data. The surveys would collect imports and exports, refined, stored, transported, and final commerce volumes, upstream transactions (including off-exchange and intra-c…

## Related bills

- 119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-s-524: Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
- 119-s-3923: Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026
- 119-s-3869: Healthy Families Act
- 119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act
- 119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026

## Sources
- [119-s-4471 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4471)

## Related
- [119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5066)
- [119-s-524: Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-524)
- [119-s-3923: Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3923)
- [119-s-3869: Healthy Families Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3869)
- [119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-51)
- [119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5108)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4471 (as of 2026-09-10).