I 
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. 
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 
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 Representa-
tives 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.—Begin-
ning 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
it shall be unlawful for a ticket issuer or secondary market 
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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 selec-
tion 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.—Be-
ginning 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 pur-
chase a statement that the ticket issuer or secondary mar-
ket 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
PRAC-
TICE.—A violation of subsection (a) or (b) shall be 
treated as a violation of a rule defining an unfair or 
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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 Fed-
eral Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et 
seq.). 
(C) AUTHORITY PRESERVED.—Nothing in 
this Act shall be construed to limit the author-
ity of the Commission under any other provi-
sion of law. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Trade Commission. 
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(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 sec-
tion 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, de-
livery 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 
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or service that an individual does not need to pur-
chase 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 pub-
lic. 
(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, includ-
ing the base event ticket price and any event ticket 
fee. 
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