# 119-s-729: Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act

119-s-729, Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] (R-LA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-729
- Congress: 119
- Title: Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-02-25
- Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] (R-LA)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Enforce hospital price transparency with fines.** This bill would require hospitals to publish a standard, machine-readable price list, set deadlines for posting and updates, block hiding those lists from search, and let the Secretary publicly name violators. - Hospitals would have 6 months to publish the required price list and must update it annually. New hospitals would get 6 months after opening to comply. - Patients and price shoppers would see standard hospital prices more easily online because hospitals could not use webpage coding to hide those lists from search results. - Noncompliant hospitals would face tiered daily fines: $600 per day for 30 beds or fewer, $20 per bed per day for 31 to 550 beds, and $11,000 per day for hospitals over 550 beds. The Health and Human Services Secretary would publish a list of noncompliant hospitals 280 days after enactment and every 180 days after.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Hospitals must post price lists: benefit, low. This bill would require each U.S. hospital to create and publicly post a standard price list within 6 months of enactment. Hospitals would have to update the list every year. New hospitals would get 6 months after opening to post. Hospitals could not hide the list from online search results using w…
- Public list of noncompliant hospitals: benefit, low. This bill would require the Secretary to publish the name of each hospital not following the price-list rules. The first list would come 280 days after enactment. Updated lists would be published every 180 days after that. Patients, employers, and insurers could use the list to identify hospitals t…
- Daily fines for noncompliant hospitals: cost, medium. This bill would allow civil monetary penalties for hospitals that fail to meet the price-list rules for a year. Penalties would be per day and tiered by bed count: $600 per day for hospitals with 30 or fewer beds; $20 per bed per day for hospitals with 31 to 550 beds; and $11,000 per day for hospit…

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- 119-s-4952: Protecting American Taxpayers Act
- 119-s-4378: Protecting American Taxpayers Act
- 119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act
- 119-s-4065: STAND with Taiwan Act of 2026
- 119-s-3492: Essential Caregivers Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-s-729 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/729)

## Related
- [119-s-688: Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-688)
- [119-s-4952: Protecting American Taxpayers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4952)
- [119-s-4378: Protecting American Taxpayers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4378)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-4065: STAND with Taiwan Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4065)
- [119-s-3492: Essential Caregivers Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3492)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-729 (as of 2026-04-21).