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HB 3108

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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Geno Chiarelli and 8 co-sponsors

Increase price transparency and restrict resale practices to protect consumers in the ticket market (clear full-price display, upfront disclosure, and limits on resellers' inventor

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Bill Summary · HB 3108

HB 3108 — Summary (Introduced Feb 18–20, 2025)

Note: The bill header provided included the title “Relating to aquifer storage and recovery permits,” but the bill text and LRB filing amend the Illinois Ticket Sale and Resale Act. This summary reflects the bill text as introduced (ticket sale/resale reforms).

Purpose and intent

HB 3108 proposes amendments to the Ticket Sale and Resale Act (815 ILCS 414) to increase price transparency for consumers, impose new sales and marketplace rules on ticket sellers/resellers and ticket resale marketplaces, tighten delivery and disclosure requirements for ticket issuers, and add or clarify statutory definitions.

Key provisions

  • Requires a ticket seller or ticket reseller to display the full price (including all assessed fees) to a consumer when the ticket price is first shown and prohibits increasing that price during the transaction.
  • Prohibits a ticket reseller from selling or offering a ticket that the reseller does not possess or does not have a contract to purchase.
  • Prohibits a ticket resale marketplace from using an artist’s, team’s, or ticket issuer’s name in a website URL unless the marketplace is authorized to do so.
  • Requires a ticket issuer to deliver a ticket purchased directly from the issuer within 4 days after purchase, unless a different delivery timeframe is clearly and conspicuously disclosed at the time of sale.
  • Requires a ticket issuer to disclose, whenever it offers event tickets for sale, the number of tickets for that event that are being withheld from sale.
  • Adds a new definitions section (815 ILCS 414/0.5) clarifying terms such as “broker/ticket broker,” “reseller/ticket reseller,” “seller/ticket seller,” “ticket,” and “ticket resale marketplace.”
  • Makes conforming changes to existing Section 1.5 (which contains existing broker registration and consumer-protection requirements), retaining or clarifying registration, consumer-protection plans, disclosure/advertising requirements, tax compliance, and a $100 annual registration fee for brokers. (Portions of the existing subsection (c) concerning internet auction/listing services are present but truncated in the introduced text.)

Who is affected

  • Consumers: gain clearer up-front pricing, earlier delivery timelines, and disclosure of withheld tickets.
  • Ticket issuers and primary sellers: must comply with delivery and disclosure rules and pricing transparency requirements.
  • Ticket resellers/brokers and ticket resale marketplaces: restricted from selling tickets they do not own/contract to buy; must avoid unauthorized use of artist/team/issuer names in URLs; may face additional compliance/registration/regulatory obligations.
  • Platforms facilitating secondary sales: will need to update site URLs, pricing displays, and transaction flows to comply.

Procedural status and timeline

  • Introduced/Filed: Feb 18–20, 2025 (Rep. Nicholas K. Smith; chief co-sponsor Rep. Jay Hoffman; co-sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly added 4/9/2025).
  • Committee actions: Assigned to Consumer Protection Committee (3/4/2025); Do Pass recommendation (3/18/2025); Referred to Ways & Means (3/20/2025); re-referred to Rules (4/11/2025).
  • Readings and calendar activity: First reading 2/18/2025; placed on and held on calendar for 2nd reading; second reading occurred 3/26/2025 (short debate).
  • Current status: In committee upon adjournment (6/28/2025).

Potential impacts and considerations

  • Consumer benefits: greater price transparency and protections (earlier delivery, disclosure of withheld inventory).
  • Industry impact: resale platforms and brokers may incur compliance costs (contracting practices, disclosure systems, URL/domain changes, registration and consumer-protection fund or association membership requirements).
  • Enforcement: the text makes statutory requirements but does not in this excerpt specify enforcement mechanisms or penalties; existing enforcement under the Ticket Sale and Resale Act and related consumer protection laws would likely apply.
  • Drafting note: truncated sections (notably parts of subsection (c)) may contain additional exemptions or rules for internet-based sellers; final impact depends on full enacted text.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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