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Assembly committee approves measure to ban speculative ticketing and require reseller transparency
Summary
AB 1349 passed out of the Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee as amended and will be referred to the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee; the bill bans speculative ticketing and requires broader transparency from secondary ticketing platforms.
The committee voted to pass AB 1349 as amended to the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee after extensive testimony from artists, independent venues, ticketing platforms and consumer groups.
The bill’s author described speculative ticketing as a practice in which sellers list tickets they do not own — leaving consumers to pay upfront for tickets that may never be delivered — and said the bill would prohibit resale listings unless the seller owns, possesses or has a contractual right to sell the ticket before listing. The author said the measure also would require resellers to disclose seat locations, require secondary platforms to retain records of sales, deposits and refunds for at least 12 months, prohibit…
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