HR4640119th CongressWALLET

Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Casar, Greg [D-TX-35]

Introduced

Summary

This bill would ban surveillance-based price and wage setting. It would require companies to disclose how automated decision systems use surveillance data, set data-accuracy safeguards, allow narrow, disclosed discounts, and create enforcement paths for the FTC, states, and private plaintiffs.

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  • Families and consumers: Companies could not set individualized prices using surveillance data. Narrow exceptions permit cost-based differences, broadly defined group discounts (teachers, veterans, seniors, students), and opt-in loyalty discounts that must be disclosed and not used for profiling.
  • Workers: Employers would be barred from using surveillance data to set or inform wages under aligned wage definitions, with a separate but coordinated enforcement scheme for wage rules.
  • Businesses and platforms: Firms must publish procedures at least 180 days before using these systems, including how they ensure data accuracy and let consumers challenge or correct data.
  • Enforcement and remedies: The Federal Trade Commission may enforce the ban, states can seek injunctions and damages, and private plaintiffs may recover the greater of actual damages or $3,000 per violation, with a five-year enforcement window and trebled damages for willful violations.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Right to sue over AI pricing and pay

If enacted, you could sue in state or federal court if harmed by AI-based pricing or pay practices. For each violation, you could get your actual loss or $3,000, whichever is larger. If the court finds willful conduct, it could raise awards up to 3 times. Prevailing plaintiffs would get costs and attorney’s fees, and you would have 5 years from discovery to sue. Pre-dispute arbitration clauses and joint-action waivers would not block these claims.

Ban on AI-based personalized prices

If enacted, businesses would be barred from using surveillance data or automated systems to set your price. Limited exceptions would allow cost-based differences, public group discounts, and opt-in loyalty programs. Any discount must be clearly disclosed, offered to all who qualify, and use data only to run the discount. Companies relying on an exception would need to post procedures at least 180 days before use, ensure data accuracy, let you correct data, and explain which data they use and how.

Ban on AI-based pay setting

If enacted, employers would be barred from using surveillance data or automated systems to set your pay. A safe harbor would apply only if the system uses city or state data and local cost of living. Employers would need to post procedures at least 180 days before use, ensure data accuracy, say which data is used and how, and let workers fix mistakes.

Stronger enforcement on AI pricing and pay

If enacted, the FTC would treat violations as unfair or deceptive and could enforce them, including against common carriers and some nonprofits. State attorneys general could sue on behalf of residents for injunctions, restitution, penalties, and per-violation payments equal to actual damages or $3,000. The EEOC could sue in federal court to stop unlawful wage-setting and seek damages and other relief.

Defines AI, data, and wages

If enacted, the bill would define what counts as an automated decision system, personal information, and surveillance data. It would also define surveillance-based wage setting and what counts as wages, like hourly pay, salary, bonuses, and scheduling. These definitions would guide who is covered by the bans and enforcement.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Casar, Greg [D-TX-35]

TX • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 7/23/2025

  • Johnson (GA)

    GA • D

    Sponsored 7/25/2025

  • Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]

    DC • D

    Sponsored 7/25/2025

  • McGovern

    MA • D

    Sponsored 7/25/2025

  • Simon

    CA • D

    Sponsored 7/25/2025

  • Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 7/25/2025

  • McCollum

    MN • D

    Sponsored 7/25/2025

  • Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]

    MA • D

    Sponsored 8/8/2025

  • Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3]

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 8/8/2025

  • Rep. Garcia, Sylvia R. [D-TX-29]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 8/8/2025

  • Rep. Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 8/8/2025

  • Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]

    WI • D

    Sponsored 8/15/2025

  • Rep. García, Jesús G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 8/15/2025

  • Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-39]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 8/15/2025

  • Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 8/15/2025

  • Rep. Deluzio, Christopher R. [D-PA-17]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 8/15/2025

  • Rep. Tran, Derek [D-CA-45]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 8/15/2025

  • Rep. McClain Delaney, April [D-MD-6]

    MD • D

    Sponsored 9/2/2025

  • Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 9/2/2025

  • Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]

    MN • D

    Sponsored 9/2/2025

  • Carson

    IN • D

    Sponsored 9/10/2025

  • Rep. Evans, Dwight [D-PA-3]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 9/30/2025

  • Rep. Frost, Maxwell [D-FL-10]

    FL • D

    Sponsored 10/21/2025

  • Rep. McGarvey, Morgan [D-KY-3]

    KY • D

    Sponsored 10/21/2025

  • Rep. Balint, Becca [D-VT-At Large]

    VT • D

    Sponsored 12/4/2025

  • Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]

    CT • D

    Sponsored 12/4/2025

  • Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 12/11/2025

  • Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]

    NY • D

    Sponsored 12/16/2025

  • Ocasio-Cortez

    NY • D

    Sponsored 1/7/2026

  • Craig

    MN • D

    Sponsored 1/7/2026

  • Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4]

    NC • D

    Sponsored 1/14/2026

  • Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-OR-4]

    OR • D

    Sponsored 1/27/2026

  • Randall

    WA • D

    Sponsored 2/2/2026

  • Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1]

    NH • D

    Sponsored 3/5/2026

  • Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 5/4/2026

  • Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]

    NY • D

    Sponsored 5/4/2026

  • Wilson (FL)

    FL • D

    Sponsored 5/12/2026

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