SB 1425 Virginia Senate · 2017 Regular Session

Ticket Resale Rights Act; limitations on reselling tickets on Internet ticketing platform, penalty.

Summary
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 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
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2017
Committee Review
Feb 2017
Senate Passage
Feb 2017
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2017
Signed into Law
Mar 2017
Introduced Jan 12, 2017 Signed Mar 3, 2017
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
18
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Mar 3, 2017
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 268 (effective 7/1/17)
executive
Feb 17, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Passed House (88-Y 10-N 1-A)
legislature
Feb 9, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
legislature
Feb 7, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1425S1
legislature
Feb 7, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 17104954D-S1
legislature
Jan 12, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
legislature
Jan 12, 2017
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 17103928D
legislature
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors

Sponsors