[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3950 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3950

     To require sellers of event tickets to disclose comprehensive 
information to consumers about ticket prices and related fees, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2023

Mr. Bilirakis (for himself and Ms. Schakowsky) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require sellers of event tickets to disclose comprehensive 
information to consumers about ticket prices and related fees, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transparency In Charges for Key 
Events Ticketing Act'' or the ``TICKET Act''.

SEC. 2. TICKET TRANSPARENCY REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Disclosure of Pricing Information.--Beginning 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, it shall be unlawful for a ticket 
issuer or secondary market ticket issuer to offer for sale an event 
ticket unless the ticket issuer or secondary market ticket issuer 
clearly and conspicuously displays the total event ticket price in any 
advertisement, marketing, or price list wherever the ticket is offered 
for sale and clearly and conspicuously discloses to any individual who 
seeks to purchase an event ticket at the beginning of the transaction 
and prior to the selection by the individual of an event ticket to 
purchase, the total event ticket price and an itemized list of the base 
event ticket price and each event ticket fee.
    (b) Disclosure of Speculative Ticketing.--Beginning 90 days after 
enactment of this Act, it shall be unlawful for a ticket issuer or 
secondary market ticket issuer that does not have actual or 
constructive possession of an event ticket to sell or offer for sale 
the event ticket unless the ticket issuer or secondary market ticket 
issuer displays in a clear and conspicuous manner and prior to the 
selection by the individual of an event ticket to purchase a statement 
that the ticket issuer or secondary market ticket issuer does not 
possess the ticket at the time the ticket is being sold or offered for 
sale.
    (c) Enforcement.--
            (1) Unfair or deceptive act or practice.--A violation of 
        subsection (a) or (b) shall be treated as a violation of a rule 
        defining an unfair or deceptive act or practice under section 
        18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 
        57a(a)(1)(B)).
            (2) Powers of commission.--
                    (A) In general.--The Commission shall enforce 
                subsections (a) and (b) in the same manner, by the same 
                means, and with the same jurisdiction, powers, and 
                duties as though all applicable terms and provisions of 
                the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) 
                were incorporated into and made a part of this Act.
                    (B) Privileges and immunities.--Any person who 
                violates subsection (a) or (b) shall be subject to the 
                penalties and entitled to the privileges and immunities 
                provided in the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 
                41 et seq.).
                    (C) Authority preserved.--Nothing in this Act shall 
                be construed to limit the authority of the Commission 
                under any other provision of law.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal 
        Trade Commission.
            (2) Base event ticket price.--The term ``base event ticket 
        price'' means, with respect to an event ticket, the price of 
        the event ticket excluding the cost of any event ticket fee.
            (3) Event; event ticket; ticket issuer.--The terms 
        ``event'', ``event ticket'', and ``ticket issuer'' have the 
        meanings given those terms in section 3 of the Better Online 
        Ticket Sales Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-274; 15 U.S.C. 45c 
        note).
            (4) Event ticket fee.--The term ``event ticket fee''--
                    (A) means a charge that must be paid in addition to 
                the base event ticket price in order to obtain an event 
                ticket from a ticket issuer or secondary market ticket 
                issuer, including any service fee, charge and order 
                processing fee, delivery fee, facility charge fee, tax, 
                and other charge; and
                    (B) does not include any charge or fee for an 
                optional product or service associated with the event 
                that may be selected by a purchaser of an event ticket.
            (5) Optional product or service.--The term ``optional 
        product or service'' means a product or service that an 
        individual does not need to purchase to use or take possession 
        of an event ticket.
            (6) Secondary market ticket issuer.--The term ``secondary 
        market ticket issuer'' means any entity for which it is in the 
        regular course of the trade or business of the entity to resell 
        or make a secondary sale of an event ticket to the general 
        public.
            (7) Secondary sale.--The term ``secondary sale'' means any 
        sale of an event ticket that occurs after the initial sale of 
        the event ticket by a ticket issuer.
            (8) Total event ticket price.--The term ``total event 
        ticket price'' means, with respect to an event ticket, the 
        total cost of the event ticket, including the base event ticket 
        price and any event ticket fee.
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