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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 430
To require sellers of event tickets to disclose comprehensive information
to consumers about ticket prices and related fees.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY5, 2025
Mr. C
RUZintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To require sellers of event tickets to disclose comprehensive
information to consumers about ticket prices and related
fees.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transparency In 4
Charges for Key Events Ticketing Act’’ or the ‘‘TICKET 5
Act’’. 6
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 7
In this Act: 8
(1) C
OMMISSION; EVENT TICKET ; TICKET 9
ISSUER.—The terms ‘‘Commission’’, ‘‘event ticket’’, 10
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and ‘‘ticket issuer’’ have the same meanings as in 1
the Better Online Ticket Sales Act of 2016 (Public 2
Law 114–274). 3
(2) B
ASE EVENT TICKET PRICE .—The term 4
‘‘base event ticket price’’ means, with respect to an 5
event ticket, the price of the event ticket excluding 6
the cost of any event ticket fees. 7
(3) E
VENT.—The term ‘‘event’’ means any live 8
concert, theatrical performance, sporting event, 9
show, or similarly scheduled live activity, taking 10
place in a venue with a seating or attendance capac-11
ity exceeding 200 persons that is— 12
(A) open to the general public; and 13
(B) promoted, advertised, or marketed in 14
interstate commerce, or for which event tickets 15
are generally sold or distributed in interstate 16
commerce. 17
(4) T
OTAL EVENT TICKET PRICE .—The term 18
‘‘total event ticket price’’ means, with respect to an 19
event ticket, the total cost of the event ticket, includ-20
ing the base event ticket price and any event ticket 21
fees. 22
(5) E
VENT TICKET FEE .—The term ‘‘event 23
ticket fee’’ means a charge that must be paid in ad-24
dition to the base event ticket price in order to ob-25
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tain an event ticket from a ticket issuer or sec-1
ondary market ticket issuer, including service fees, 2
charge and order processing fees, delivery fees, facil-3
ity charge fees, taxes, and other charges, and does 4
not include any charge or fee for an optional product 5
or service associated with the event that may be se-6
lected by a purchaser of an event ticket. 7
(6) O
PTIONAL PRODUCT OR SERVICE .—The 8
term ‘‘optional product or service’’ means a product 9
or service that an individual does not need to pur-10
chase to use or take possession of an event ticket. 11
(7) S
ECONDARY MARKET TICKET ISSUER .—The 12
term ‘‘secondary market ticket issuer’’ means any 13
entity for which it is in the regular course of the 14
trade or business of the entity to resell or make a 15
secondary sale of an event ticket to the general pub-16
lic. 17
(8) R
ESALE; SECONDARY SALE .—The terms 18
‘‘resale’’ and ‘‘secondary sale’’ mean any sale of an 19
event ticket that occurs after the initial sale of the 20
event ticket by a ticket issuer. 21
SEC. 3. ALL-INCLUSIVE TICKET PRICE DISCLOSURE. 22
Beginning 120 days after the date of enactment of 23
this Act, it shall be unlawful for a ticket issuer or sec-24
ondary market ticket issuer to offer for sale an event tick-25
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et unless the ticket issuer or secondary market ticket 1
issuer— 2
(1) clearly and conspicuously displays the total 3
event ticket price, if a price is displayed, in any ad-4
vertisement, marketing, or price list wherever the 5
ticket is offered for sale; 6
(2) clearly and conspicuously discloses to any 7
individual who seeks to purchase an event ticket the 8
total event ticket price at the time the ticket is first 9
displayed to the individual and anytime thereafter 10
throughout the ticket purchasing process; and 11
(3) provides an itemized list of the base event 12
ticket price and each event ticket fee. 13
SEC. 4. ENFORCEMENT. 14
(a) U
NFAIR ORDECEPTIVEACT ORPRACTICE.—A 15
violation of section 3 shall be treated as a violation of a 16
rule defining an unfair or deceptive act or practice under 17
section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act 18
(15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)). 19
(b) P
OWERS OF THECOMMISSION.— 20
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission shall en-21
force section 3 in the same manner, by the same 22
means, and with the same jurisdiction, powers, and 23
duties as though all applicable terms and provisions 24
of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 25
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et seq.) were incorporated into and made a part of 1
this Act. 2
(2) P
RIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES .—Any person 3
who violates section 3 shall be subject to the pen-4
alties and entitled to the privileges and immunities 5
provided in the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 6
U.S.C. 41 et seq.). 7
(3) A
UTHORITY PRESERVED .—Nothing in this 8
Act shall be construed to limit the authority of the 9
Commission under any other provision of law. 10
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