SB 249

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1 Bill Summary
2 Bill Actions
3 Bill Calendar
4 Bill Text
5 Bill Documents

Bill Summary

Sponsors

Bobby D. Singleton

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

Relating to entertainment event ticketing; to 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; to 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; and to also allow ticket issuers and venue operators to enforce certain policies, limits, and restrictions pertaining to ticket sales and event access.

Subjects

Entertainment

Bill Actions

Action Date	Chamber	Action
April 16, 2019	S	Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development first Amendment Offered
April 16, 2019	S	Pending third reading on day 11 Favorable from Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development with 1 amendment
April 16, 2019	S	Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
April 9, 2019	S	Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

Type	Link
Bill Text	SB 249 - Introduced
Bill Amendments	Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development first Amendment Offered

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