This bill would prohibit the intentional creation or operation of event ticketing websites with domain names that, without authorization, contain the name of a venue, performing artist, performance title, exhibition title, or similar descriptors.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Pending third reading on day 15 Favorable from Commerce and Small Business
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Commerce and Small Business
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 197
Smitherman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 196
Smitherman Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Tourism and Marketing
Source: Alabama Legislature