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type: "Bill"
title: "Ticket Resale Rights Act; limitations on reselling tickets on Internet ticketing platform, penalty."
description: "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"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1425"
citation: "Virginia SB 1425 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sporting Exhibitions", "Events and Facilities", "Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2789a07d-48cc-4019-bec2-7530a01f4ec8"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1425"
source_hash: "29a85d9093d0cce98e2bd1a92a6a33cc4de91559ddc182837e74b2d0f1d3c45c"
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-va"]
---
# 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.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0268)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1425ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1425ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104954D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1425S1)
4. **Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103928D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1425)
## Votes
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **156** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **355** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **8810** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **141** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2789a07d-48cc-4019-bec2-7530a01f4ec8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).