Assembly Bill 587
Selling and reselling entertainment tickets and providing a penalty. (FE)
Topics: Amusement, Sales, Trade practice
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Oct 24, 2025
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on State Affairs. The committee's chair at the time was Rob Swearingen. Chairs decide which bills get a hearing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 580. That version died when the session ended.
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Committee
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Public hearing
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Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
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Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
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Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
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Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
This bill creates requirements for the selling and reselling of entertainment tickets.
Under the bill, an operator of an entertainment venue, ticket reseller, or online ticket marketplace must disclose to a person purchasing a ticket to a place of entertainment the total price of each ticket, including all fees and surcharges, in an easily readable manner that is not false or misleading. Operators, resellers, and marketplaces may not increase the price of a ticket with respect to a particular person after the ticket is first displayed to that person, excluding certain reasonable fees.
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Also, under the bill, ticket resellers may not, for a commercial purpose, sell for resale an entertainment ticket for more than the face value of the ticket unless the ticket reseller has received prior authorization from the operator of the event for which the ticket was originally sold. Under the bill, “ticket reseller” does not include a person that sells an entertainment ticket for resale if the person purchased the ticket solely for the person’s own use or the use of the person’s invitee, employee, or agent nor any person that makes less than $10,000 in annual revenue from the resale of entertainment tickets.
An operator, ticket reseller, or online ticket marketplace that violates the requirements in the bill is subject to a forfeiture of $1,000 for each violation and must forfeit all profits made from sales that violate these requirements.
Who's behind it
13 representatives are its . 12 are Republicans and 1 is a Democrat.
2 more lawmakers .
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Authors (13)
- Elijah Behnke · Republican, Assembly
- Rob Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Bob Donovan · Republican, Assembly
- Ben Franklin · Republican, Assembly
- Joy Goeben · Republican, Assembly
- Rick Gundrum · Republican, Assembly
- Tara Johnson · Democrat, Assembly
- Dan Knodl · Republican, Assembly
- Jeff Mursau · Republican, Assembly
- Jerry O'Connor · Republican, Assembly
- Jessie Rodriguez · Republican, Assembly
- John Spiros · Republican, Assembly
- David Steffen · Republican, Assembly
Signed on in support (2)
- Steve Nass · Republican, Senate
- Eric Wimberger · Republican, Senate
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Mar 23, 2026
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Dec 4, 2025
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Oct 24, 2025
Sent to the Assembly Committee on State Affairs.
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Oct 24, 2025
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Oct 24, 2025 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Franklin, Behnke, Brooks, Donovan, Goeben, Gundrum, Johnson, Knodl, Mursau, O'Connor, Rodriguez, Spiros and Steffen; cosponsored by Senators Wimberger and Nass
- Oct 24, 2025 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs
- Dec 4, 2025 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate