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Bill	TICKET SCALPING-INTERNET	Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Provides that the Act does not prohibit a ticket holder from selling a ticket for admission to a baseball game, football game, hockey game, theatre entertainment, or any other amusement for a price more than the price printed on the face of the ticket and for more than the price of the ticket at the box office if the sale is made through an Internet website and certain specified conditions are met. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	94th	HB 873	Illinois HB 873 (94th)	bill		enacted		3	50	2	2005-02-02	2005-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/81c84d33-330c-4c97-abdd-99ff60b386ce	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=873&GAID=8&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=15481&SessionID=50&GA=94	bd8624ed08432ac32271141372f0037cb199f2f2a5efb771c856db80420e1f59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 873 (94th) — TICKET SCALPING-INTERNET

Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Provides that the Act does not prohibit a ticket holder from selling a ticket for admission to a baseball game, football game, hockey game, theatre entertainment, or any other amusement for a price more than the price printed on the face of the ticket and for more than the price of the ticket at the box office if the sale is made through an Internet website and certain specified conditions are met. Effective immediately.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Motion — 31–21 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 105–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Angelo Saviano — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2005-02-02 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Angelo Saviano filing
• 2005-02-02 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-02-02 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2005-02-08 Assigned to Consumer Protection Committee referral-committee
• 2005-03-01 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Consumer Protection Committee amendment-introduction
• 2005-03-01 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Consumer Protection Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2005-03-01 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Consumer Protection Committee; 009-000-003 committee-passage
• 2005-03-02 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-04-08 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2005-04-08 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2005-04-12 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. William Davis
• 2005-04-12 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Angelo Saviano amendment-introduction
• 2005-04-12 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2005-04-12 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Osterman
• 2005-04-12 Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Rep. Harry Osterman
• 2005-04-13 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Marlow H. Colvin
• 2005-04-13 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Rosemary Mulligan
• 2005-04-13 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Consumer Protection Committee
• 2005-04-13 Co-Sponsor Rep. Jim Sacia
• 2005-04-14 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Consumer Protection Committee; 011-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2005-04-14 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2005-04-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-04-14 Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Jim Sacia
• 2005-04-14 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ed Sullivan, Jr.
• 2005-04-15 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 105-005-001 reading-3, passage
• 2005-04-19 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2005-04-19 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 20, 2005 reading-1
• 2005-04-19 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Don Harmon
• 2005-04-19 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-04-19 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2005-04-21 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2005-05-03 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Dan Rutherford
• 2005-05-04 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Dave Sullivan
• 2005-05-05 Do Pass Judiciary; 006-001-003 committee-passage
• 2005-05-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 10, 2005
• 2005-05-09 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Kirk W. Dillard amendment-introduction
• 2005-05-09 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2005-05-11 Second Reading reading-2
• 2005-05-11 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 12, 2005
• 2005-05-12 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Senator Cullerton removed as chief sponsor, Senator Dillard becomes Chief Sponsor.
• 2005-05-18 Third Reading - Consideration Postponed reading-3
• 2005-05-18 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a) amendment-failure
• 2005-05-18 Placed on Calendar - Consideration Postponed May 19, 2005
• 2005-05-20 Verified
• 2005-05-20 Third Reading - Passed; 031-021-002 reading-3, passage
• 2005-05-20 Passed Both Houses
• 2005-06-14 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2005-06-14 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2005-06-14 Effective Date June 14, 2005
• 2005-06-14 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0020 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81c84d33-330c-4c97-abdd-99ff60b386ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).