SB1425
Ticket Resale Rights Act; limitations on reselling tickets on Internet ticketing platform, penalty.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 HB 1825. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/12/2017 - Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103928D
- 01/12/2017 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/18/2017 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1425)
- 02/03/2017 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
- 02/03/2017 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104954D-S1
- 02/06/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/2017 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/07/2017 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/07/2017 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 17104954D-S1
- 02/07/2017 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1425S1
- 02/07/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/2017 - Senate: Passed Senate (35-Y 5-N)
- 02/09/2017 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/09/2017 - House: Read first time
- 02/09/2017 - House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/14/2017 - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 6-N)
- 02/16/2017 - House: Read second time
- 02/17/2017 - House: Read third time
- 02/17/2017 - House: Passed House (88-Y 10-N 1-A)
- 02/17/2017 - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (88-Y 10-N 1-A)
- 02/22/2017 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/22/2017 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1425ER)
- 02/22/2017 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/22/2017 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/2017 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
- 02/23/2017 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/03/2017 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 268 (effective 7/1/17)
- 03/03/2017 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268)
