By Brown                                               S.B. No. 305
       74R1177 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of an offense involving certain sales of
    1-3  tickets to events; providing a penalty.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 35, Business & Commerce
    1-6  Code, is amended by adding Section 35.49 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 35.49.  TICKET SCALPING.  (a)  In this section:
    1-8              (1)  "Event" means an event of public entertainment or
    1-9  amusement.
   1-10              (2)  "Event sponsor" means an owner, lessee, operator,
   1-11  promoter, or manager of an event or the site of an event.
   1-12              (3)  "Resell" means to sell a ticket after it has been
   1-13  purchased from the event sponsor or from an individual,
   1-14  corporation, or association authorized to sell the ticket by the
   1-15  event sponsor.
   1-16        (b)  A person may not resell or offer to resell a ticket to
   1-17  an event for a price in excess of the price authorized to be
   1-18  offered to the general public by the event sponsor.
   1-19        (c)  A person who violates this section commits an offense.
   1-20  An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.