Bill > B26-0224

Introduced Session

A BILL IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA To amend Title 28 of the District of Columbia Official Code to protect artists, venues, and consumers in the District from unfair and deceptive practices in live event ticket purchases by clarifying a ticket issuer, reseller, or secondary ticket exchange’s existing obligation under the Consumer Protection Procedures Act, like in all industries, to clearly and conspicuously disclose upfront certain information regarding ticket pricing, to prescribe procedures governing the provision of refunds, to prohibit the sale of speculative tickets, to prohibit a ticket issuer from restricting the transferability of a ticket unless the terms and conditions on transferability are clearly disclosed to the consumer prior to purchase, to permit ticket issuers to maintain and enforce policies and conditions or requirements for ticket purchase with respect to conduct, behavior, public health and safety, or age at the venue or event, and establish limits on the amount of tickets that can be purchased, to require a ticket issuer or secondary ticket exchange to maintain reasonable technology to prevent any machine, device, computer program, or computer software, with or without human assistance, from bypassing security measures or access control systems designed to limit the number of tickets that can be purchased by a person on a marketplace for initial purchase or secondary ticket exchange, to require a reseller that sells or offers to sell 50 or more tickets a year to register annually with the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection and to require that registered resellers provide certain information to the Department and maintain a surety bond of no less than $10,000, to impose responsibilities on secondary ticket exchanges, to prohibit the price of tickets sold on a secondary ticket exchange from exceeding the total price of the initial ticket plus up to 10% of the total price of the initial ticket, to require the Mayor to issue rules to implement provisions governing the registration of resellers, and to provide for civil penalties of $5,000 for the first violation and $10,000 for the second and subsequent violations of this chapter.

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Charles Allen (D)*,  Matt Frumin (D)*,  Janeese George (D)*,  Christina Henderson (I)*,  Kenyan McDuffie (I)*,  Brianne Nadeau (D)*,  Zachary Parker (D)*,  Robert White (D)*, 

Public Hearing Held (on 10/22/2025)

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