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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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Computer Services and Uses
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5 23 6 2017-01-09 2017-03-03 openstates ocd-bill/e4729d04-97a1-49c5-beeb-05cb215e42f6 http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1825 2df5a8d85c6a57b9fef7f4aff72b9a55751a09b093feb706613f1b5f26f40c4f 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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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.

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1825ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104132D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. House: Floor substitute printed 17104874D-H2 (Albo) (committee substitute) — source
  5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101115D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment — 111 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed House — 8511 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — 128 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Senate amendment agreed to by House — 8410 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed Senate with amendment — 364 (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).