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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 | SB 1425 | Virginia SB 1425 (2017) |
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Virginia SB 1425 (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 (CHAP0268) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1425ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104954D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103928D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — 15–6 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 35–5 (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — 88–10 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — 14–1 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)
- Frank W. Wagner — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- L. Louise Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Richard H. Black — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-12 Presented and ordered printed 17103928D
introduction - 2017-01-12 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2017-02-07 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-07 Reading of substitute waived
- 2017-02-07 Committee substitute agreed to 17104954D-S1
- 2017-02-07 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1425S1
- 2017-02-09 Placed on Calendar
- 2017-02-09 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-02-09 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2017-02-16 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-17 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-17 Passed House (88-Y 10-N 1-A)
passage - 2017-02-22 Enrolled
- 2017-02-22 Signed by President
- 2017-02-22 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-23 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
- 2017-02-23 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 268 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2789a07d-48cc-4019-bec2-7530a01f4ec8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).