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§ 59.1-466.8 Ticket resale; deceptive trade practices prohibited

No Internet ticketing platform or reseller shall (i) use or display any trademarked or copyrighted URL, title, designation, image, mark, or any other symbol of an operator, rights holder, or primary ticket provider without the consent of such operator, rights holder, or primary ticket provider or (ii) use or display any combination of text, images, website graphics, website display, or website addresses that is substantially similar to the website of an operator in a manner that could reasonably be expected to mislead a potential purchaser.

History

This law was first created in 2023. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 304 and 305 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

2023, cc. 304, 305.

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Amendment Attempts

HB1857: Ticket resale; deceptive trade practices prohibited, definitions. (passed)
SB1249: Ticket resale; deceptive trade practices prohibited, definitions. (passed)
HB1725: Medical Debt Protection Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties.
HB1911: Veterans' Services Protection Act; created, prohibited practices, penalty. (failed)
HB2021: Fair Voice Purchasing Act; established, penalties. (failed)
HB2073: Financial institutions; discrimination prohibited, penalty. (failed)
HB2112: Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties. (failed)
HB2195: Virginia Consumer Protection Act; mold remediation and inspections, report. (passed)
HB2214: Trespass towing fees; State Corporation Commission to establish, etc. (failed)
HB2250: Artificial Intelligence Training Data Transparency Act; transparency and disclosure requirements. (failed)
HB2294: Virginia Social Media Regulation Act; established, penalties. (failed)
HB2355: Virginia Consumer Protection Act; professional mold remediators, mold remediation certification. (failed)
HB2374: Athlete agents; deregulation. (failed)
HB2483: Digital Right to Repair Act; access to diagnostics, tools, service documentation, and firmware. (failed)
HB2485: Cannabis control; establishes framework for creating retail market, penalties. (failed)
HB2497: Electric vehicle battery suppliers; certification, penalty. (failed)
HB2515: Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, mandatory fees or surcharges disclosure.
HB2554: Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act; established. (failed)
SB754: Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, etc., reproductive or sexual health information. (passed)
SB970: Cannabis control; establishes framework for creating retail market, penalties. (failed)
SB1161: Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act; established. (failed)
SB1212: Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, mandatory fees or surcharges disclosure.
SB1222: Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties.
SB1226: Veterans' Services Protection Act; created, prohibited practices, penalty. (failed)
SB1285: Professional & Occupational Reg., Dept. of; deregulation of residential building energy analysts. (failed)
SB1332: Towing and storage of certain vehicles; limitation on charges. (passed)
SB1356: Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental payment methods. (passed)
SB1376: Virginia Consumer Protection Act; food labeling. (passed)
SB1453: Financial institutions; discrimination prohibited, penalty. (failed)
SB1455: Online marketplace; establishes requirements for high-volume third-party sellers. (failed)
HB121: Surveillance pricing; prohibited, civil penalties. (failed)
HB122: Cosmetic products; manufacturing or sale with certain ingredients prohibited. (passed)
HB308: Va. ABC Authority; permitting of retail tobacco product retailers, etc. (passed)
HB312: Motor vehicles; glass repair and replacement, emissions inspections, penalties, repeals. (passed)
HB322: Misbranded food; manufactured-protein food products, civil penalty. (passed)
HB360: Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, kratom products. (passed)
HB374: Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; written rental agreement, lot rent increase prohibition, etc. (passed)
HB398: Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties. (passed)
HB518: Streaming advertisement volume control; definitions, volume of advertisements, civil penalties. (passed)
HB635: Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Act; established, prohibited practices, penalties. (failed)
HB638: Data brokers; regulation, civil penalties. (failed)
HB642: Cannabis control; establishes framework for creation of retail marijuana market, penalties, report. (failed)
HB665: Financial institutions and services; virtual currency kiosk operators, license required, penalties. (passed)
HB672: Appliance minimum energy and water conservation standards; requirement of manufacturers. (passed)
HB677: Residential property owners; insurance policies, roofing services by contractors. (passed)
HB738: Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, kratom products.
HB743: Va. Telephone Privacy Protection Act; voice service providers, caller identification authentication.
HB758: Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Minors Act; established, prohibited practices, penalties.
HB765: Rental home marketplace guarantees; transactions involving advertisement, sale, etc., penalty. (failed)
HB864: Cosmetic products; manufacturing or sale with certain ingredients prohibited, definitions.
HB875: Kratom; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing, penalties.
HB984: Virginia Consumer Protection Act; cash payments, discrimination prohibited, penalty.
HB1251: Digital Right to Repair Act; access to diagnostics, tools, service documentation, and firmware.
HB1259: Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; mold remediation.
HB1268: Veterans' Services Protection Act; created, prohibited practices, penalty. (failed)
HB1324: Farm Equipment Right to Repair Act; penalties, civil action. (failed)
SB177: Va. Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, consumer reproductive/sexual health information. (passed)
SB184: Virginia Consumer Protection Act; shipping goods without certain information. (passed)
SB186: Misbranded food; manufactured-protein food products, civil penalty. (passed)
SB189: Consumer debt collection proceedings; signing of pleadings, motions, and other papers. (passed)
SB256: Appliance minimum energy and water conservation standards; requirement of manufacturers. (passed)
SB315: Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment Act; created, prohibited practices, penalties. (passed)
SB402: Residential property owners; insurance policies, roofing services by contractors. (passed)
SB459: Liquefied petroleum gas fitters; service disconnection requirements, civil penalties. (passed)
SB489: Financial institutions and services; virtual currency kiosk operators, license required, penalties. (passed)
SB542: Cannabis control; establishes framework for creation of retail marijuana market, penalties, report.
SB620: Va. ABC Authority; permitting of retail tobacco product retailers, etc. (passed)
SB671: Cannabis control; retail market; penalties.
SB767: Motor vehicles; glass repair and replacement, emissions inspections, penalties, repeals. (passed)
SB826: Marijuana; creates framework for retail sales.