---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ticket Resale Rights Act; limitations on reselling tickets on Internet ticketing platform, penalty."
description: "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"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1825"
citation: "Virginia HB 1825 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Computer Services and Uses", "Sporting Exhibitions", "Events and Facilities", "Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David B. Albo"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4729d04-97a1-49c5-beeb-05cb215e42f6"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1825"
source_hash: "2df5a8d85c6a57b9fef7f4aff72b9a55751a09b093feb706613f1b5f26f40c4f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 1825 (2017) — Ticket Resale Rights Act; limitations on reselling tickets on Internet ticketing platform, penalty.

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

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0261)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1825ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1825ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104132D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1825H1)
4. **House: Floor substitute printed 17104874D-H2 (Albo)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1825H2)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101115D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1825)

## Votes

- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment — **11–1** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **85–11** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **12–8** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **84–10** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **36–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David B. Albo — primary (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Robert G. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- S. Chris Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101115D `introduction`
- **2017-01-09** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** Floor substitute printed 17104874D-H2 (Albo)
- **2017-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-27** Committee substitute rejected 17104132D-H1
- **2017-01-27** Substitute by Delegate Albo agreed to 17104874D-H2
- **2017-01-27** Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB1825H2
- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House (85-Y 11-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-16** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-16** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-20** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-20** Senate amendment agreed to by House (84-Y 10-N 1-A)
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 261 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4729d04-97a1-49c5-beeb-05cb215e42f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).