SB 580

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.

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.