HB265 Alabama 2017 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Ticket sales, use of non-transferable ticketing system auth. under limited circumstances, discrimination against holders of resold tickets prohibited, exceptions

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, an admission ticket that was originally issued, sold, or authorized by an organizer of certain events may be transferred or resold</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would: (1) allow a ticket issuer to employ a nontransferable ticketing system only if the consumer is offered an option at the time of original sale to purchase the same ticket in a transferable form; and (2) provide that a ticket buyer or seller may not be penalized or discriminated against or denied access to an event solely on the grounds that the ticket or tickets were resold</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also specify specific circumstances in which a ticket issuer or venue operator may elect not to offer tickets in a transferable form</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to ticket sales; to allow a ticket issuer to employ a nontransferable ticketing system only under specified circumstances; to provide that a ticket buyer or seller may not be penalized or discriminated against or denied access to an event solely on the grounds that the ticket or tickets were resold; to prohibit a person from using or selling software to circumvent a security measure, access control system, or other control or measure used by a primary ticket sales platform or secondary ticket exchange to engage in specified activity; and to specify that the act does not apply to certain events hosted by an institution of higher education. </p>

Subjects

Tickets