HB1825
Ticket Resale Rights Act; limitations on reselling tickets on Internet ticketing platform, penalty.
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Rights to resell tickets; civil penalty.
Prohibits any person that issues tickets for admission to a professional concert, professional sporting event, or professional theatrical production, open to the public for which tickets are ordinarily sold, from issuing the ticket solely through a delivery method that substantially prevents the ticket purchaser from lawfully reselling the ticket on ... (More) the Internet ticketing platform of the ticket purchaser's choice. The measure also prohibits a person from being discriminated against or denied admission to an event solely on the basis that the person resold a ticket, or purchased a resold ticket, on a specific Internet ticketing platform. A person violating these prohibitions is subject to a civil penalty of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000. This bill is identical to SB 1425. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/09/2017 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101115D
- 01/09/2017 - House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/18/2017 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1825)
- 01/24/2017 - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (12-Y 8-N)
- 01/24/2017 - House: Committee substitute printed 17104132D-H1
- 01/26/2017 - House: Read first time
- 01/27/2017 - House: Floor substitute printed 17104874D-H2 (Albo)
- 01/27/2017 - House: Read second time
- 01/27/2017 - House: Committee substitute rejected 17104132D-H1
- 01/27/2017 - House: Substitute by Delegate Albo agreed to 17104874D-H2
- 01/27/2017 - House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB1825H2
- 01/30/2017 - House: Read third time and passed House (85-Y 11-N 1-A)
- 01/30/2017 - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (85-Y 11-N 1-A)
- 01/31/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/31/2017 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/01/2017 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1825H2)
- 02/13/2017 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (11-Y 1-N)
- 02/15/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/2017 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/16/2017 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/16/2017 - Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/16/2017 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/16/2017 - Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (36-Y 4-N)
- 02/20/2017 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/20/2017 - House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (84-Y 10-N 1-A)
- 02/20/2017 - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (84-Y 10-N 1-A)
- 02/23/2017 - House: Enrolled
- 02/23/2017 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1825ER)
- 02/23/2017 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/2017 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/27/2017 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1825ER)
- 02/28/2017 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- 02/28/2017 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/03/2017 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 261 (effective 7/1/17)
- 03/03/2017 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261)
