---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Law – Consumer Protection – Sale and Resale of Tickets"
description: "Commercial Law – Consumer Protection – Sale and Resale of Tickets"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 539"
citation: "Maryland SB 539 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle", "Ellis", "Feldman", "Gile"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe6fc05b-63ac-418f-91a3-8443f6e4155d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0539?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "453ce81333e1413d6b5454d183dabc4a9d0e0ec4c98c138483dab06bacb0f8e4"
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-md"]
---

# Maryland SB 539 (2024) — Commercial Law – Consumer Protection – Sale and Resale of Tickets

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Commercial Law – Consumer Protection – Sale and Resale of Tickets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_456_sb0539t.pdf)
2. **First - Commercial Law – Consumer Protection – Sale and Resale of Tickets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0539f.pdf)
3. **Third - Commercial Law – Consumer Protection – Sale and Resale of Tickets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0539t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **113–25** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **103–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-03-13** Motion Laid Over (Senator Jennings) Adopted
- **2024-03-14** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-03-14** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-03-14** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-16** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2024-04-05** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2024-04-08** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2024-04-08** Motion Recede (Delegate Wilson) Adopted
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** House Recede
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 456 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe6fc05b-63ac-418f-91a3-8443f6e4155d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).