CaliforniaTicket sellers.
What it does
Existing law provides for the comprehensive regulation of ticket sellers, including a requirement to maintain records of ticket sales, deposits, and refunds. For purposes of these provisions, existing law defines a ticket seller as any person who, for compensation, commission, or otherwise, sells admission tickets to an event, and defines a primary contractor as the person or organization who is responsible for the event for which tickets are being sold. Existing law makes it unlawful for a ticket seller to represent that they can deliver or cause to be delivered a ticket at a specific price or within a specific price range and to fail to deliver within a reasonable time or by a contracted time the tickets at or below the price stated or within the range of prices stated.
More detail
Existing law requires a ticket seller to disclose that a service charge is imposed by the ticket seller and is added to the actual ticket price by the seller in any advertisement or promotion for any event by the ticket seller. Existing law makes a violation of the laws regulating ticket sellers a misdemeanor.
Existing law, with specified exceptions, makes unlawful advertising, displaying, or offering a price for a good or service that does not include all mandatory fees or charges other than taxes or fees imposed by a government on the transaction, as specified.
This bill, except as specified, would prohibit a ticket reseller, as defined, from selling a ticket for more than the equivalent of the original price for the ticket plus 10%, as specified, and would also prohibit a ticket reseller from advertising, displaying, or offering a price for a ticket that does not include all mandatory fees or charges. The bill would prohibit a ticket resale marketplace, as defined, from charging more than 10% of the original face value of the ticket, as specified, and would require a ticket resale marketplace to require the ticket reseller to disclose the original price of the ticket, as described. The bill would require an original seller, as defined, to print or display on a ticket the original purchase price of that ticket. The bill would limit these provisions to the resale of tickets where the event is held at an independent venue, as specified. Because the bill would create new crimes, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make an original seller, ticket reseller, or ticket resale marketplace that violates these provisions subject to specified civil penalties and would authorize the Attorney General, county counsel, or city attorney to assess and recover those penalties in a civil action. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Aug 13In committee: Held under submission.Latest
- Aug 3In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Jul 1From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jun 30
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 29From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 22From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 10Referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D., P., D.T., & C.P. and JUD.Minor
- Jun 1In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- May 28Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 16. Page 5536.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 1720 Haney Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- May 19Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 18Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.Major
- May 14From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 14).Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended. Result: pass.Lower
- May 14Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5030.)
- May 13In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- May 6In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Apr 20From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 16
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 15Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.Minor
- Apr 14From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended.Major
- Apr 9Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.Minor
- Apr 8Read second time and amended.Major
- Apr 7From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 7).Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection]. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 23Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S., & T.Minor
- Mar 19From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S., & T. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 19Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S., & T., P. & C.P. and JUD.Minor
- Feb 6From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
- Feb 5Read first time. To print.Introduced