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| Bill | 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 | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 1825 | Virginia HB 1825 (2017) |
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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.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1825ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 17104132D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Floor substitute printed 17104874D-H2 (Albo) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101115D (committee substitute) — source
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; origin ocd-bill/e4729d04-97a1-49c5-beeb-05cb215e42f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).