TICKET Act

This bill sets federal rules for how event tickets are priced and sold. Sellers must clearly display the total ticket price, including all mandatory fees, the first time a ticket is shown and throughout the purchase, and must itemize the base price and each fee before checkout. It bans speculative ticketing, meaning a seller that does not have actual or constructive possession of a ticket cannot sell, offer, or advertise it. Sellers must disclose when they are reselling rather than issuing tickets, cannot falsely claim to be official or affiliated with a venue, team, or artist, and cannot put a venue's name in their web address without authorization. If an event is canceled, buyers get a full refund, unless the cancellation is due to a cause beyond the issuer's reasonable control, such as a natural disaster, civil disturbance, or other unforeseeable impediment. If it is postponed, they get a replacement ticket, or past six months a refund at the buyer's option. Refund and guarantee policies must be disclosed before the sale, along with how to obtain a refund. The Federal Trade Commission must report to Congress within six months on its enforcement of the 2016 Better Online Ticket Sales Act. A violation is treated as an unfair or deceptive practice enforceable by the FTC. The pricing, speculative sale, and refund rules take effect 180 days after enactment.

At least 18 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 96 quarterly reports filed by 12 lobbying firms and by 5 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Landry's; Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc.; Sesac Rights Management Inc; Recording Academy; Coalition for Ticket Fairness, Inc. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 13 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.