SB249 Alabama 2019 Session

Updated Apr 26, 2021

Senate Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2019

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Bobby D. Singleton Senator
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2019
Title: Entertainment events, limiting the circumstances in which a ticket vendor or entertainment venue can place restrictions on the resale or transfer of tickets
Description: This bill would provide that tickets to entertainment events may be originally sold with resale and transfer restrictions only if the ticket seller also offers the option of purchasing the same tickets without resale and transfer restrictions.
This bill would also provide that no ticket seller, entertainment venue operator, entertainment event participant, entertainment event sponsor, entertainment event promoter, or any agent of any of these entities may penalize a ticket buyer or seller for holding a resold ticket.
This bill would also allow ticket issuers and venue operators to enforce certain policies, limits, and restrictions pertaining to ticket sales and event access.
Subjects: Entertainment

Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development first Amendment Offered

Pending third reading on day 11 Favorable from Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development with 1 amendment

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development