Bill > S94

This bill, concerning the issuance and sale of sports and entertainment tickets, aims to enhance consumer protections by prohibiting operators of entertainment venues, or their agents, from restricting the resale of tickets included in subscription or season ticket packages, denying entry to ticket holders who possess resold tickets, or implementing paperless ticketing systems without offering consumers a transferable option. Specifically, operators cannot make resale restrictions a condition of purchasing or keeping season tickets, nor can they deny access based solely on a ticket being resold. If a paperless ticketing system is used, consumers must have the option to purchase paperless tickets that they can transfer at any price, at any time, and without additional fees, independent of the venue operator. Furthermore, if a venue operator uses a paperless system that doesn't allow independent transfer, they must offer consumers the choice at the initial sale to buy the same tickets in a transferable format, such as paper or e-tickets, without limiting retrieval to the venue itself unless the buyer agrees, and the price for any ticket must be the same regardless of its form or transferability, with independent transferability not being considered a special service subject to additional fees.