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Session of 2026
SENATE BILL No. 505
By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
2-11
AN ACT concerning consumer protection; relating to entertainment ticket
sales; prohibiting certain conduct in connection with the sale or resale
of tickets; providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive
act or practice subject to penalties pursuant to the Kansas consumer
protection act.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) A person shall not sell or offer for sale a ticket of
admission to an entertainment event that was purchased for the purpose of
resale for a price in excess of the price printed on the face of the ticket or
otherwise reflected as the face value of the ticket, plus lawful taxes, fees
and other charges that are required to be paid in order to purchase the
ticket from the original issuer, unless authorized by an operator.
(b) A ticket reseller or online ticket marketplace shall not advertise,
offer for sale or contract for the sale of a ticket before the ticket has been
made available to the public, including through presale, without first
obtaining permission from the place of entertainment and having actual or
constructive possession of the ticket, unless the ticket reseller owns the
ticket pursuant to a season ticket package purchased by the ticket reseller.
(c) A person shall not use or cause to be used an internet domain
name or subdomain thereof in an operator, ticket reseller or online ticket
marketplace website's URL that contains any of the following, unless
acting on behalf of the place of entertainment, event or person scheduled
to perform or appear at the event:
(1) The name of a place of entertainment;
(2) the name of an event, including the name of a person scheduled to
perform or appear at the event; or
(3) a name substantially similar to any name described in paragraph
(1) or (2).
(d) A person shall not:
(1) Circumvent any portion of the process for purchasing a ticket on
the internet or for admission to a place of entertainment, including, but not
limited to, security or identity validation measures or an access control
system; or
(2) disguise the identity of a purchaser for the purpose of purchasing
a number of tickets for admission to a place of entertainment that exceeds
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the maximum number of tickets allowed for purchase by each person.
(e) A violation of this section constitutes a deceptive act or practice as
provided in K.S.A. 50-626, and amendments thereto. For the purposes of
remedies and penalties provided by the Kansas consumer protection act,
the person committing the conduct prohibited by this section shall be
deemed a supplier and the person who is the victim of such conduct shall
be deemed a consumer. Proof of a consumer transaction shall not be
required.
(f) For the purposes of this section:
(1) "Entertainment" means all forms of entertainment, including, but
not limited to, theatrical or operatic performances, concerts, motion
pictures, entertainment at fairgrounds, amusement parks, athletic
competitions and other sports and all other forms of diversion, recreation
or show.
(2) "Internet domain name" refers to a globally unique, hierarchical
reference to an internet host or service, assigned through centralized
internet naming authorities, comprised of a series of character strings
separated by periods with the right-most string specifying the top of the
hierarchy.
(3) "Online ticket marketplace" means the administrator of a website
or other electronic service, including an agent, employee or assignee of the
administrator, that sells tickets or maintains a platform to facilitate the sale
of tickets.
(4) "Operator" means a person, including an agent, employee or
assignee of the person, who:
(A) Owns, operates or controls a place of entertainment; or
(B) produces entertainment.
(5) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited
liability company, estate, trust, firm, association, organization or other
entity.
(6) "Place of entertainment" means an entertainment facility,
including, but not limited to, an amphitheater, theater, stadium, arena,
racetrack, museum, amusement park, venue, club or any other place where
performances, concerts, exhibits, athletic games, contests or other forms of
entertainment are held. "Place of entertainment" does not include movie
theaters.
(7) "Ticket reseller" means a person that offers or sells tickets for
resale after the original sale to an entertainment event located in this state
and includes an operator to the extent that the operator offers or sells
tickets for resale. Sales by a ticket reseller include sales by any means,
including, but not limited to, in person or by telephone, mail, delivery
service, facsimile, internet, email or other electronic means. A ticket
reseller does not include a person that purchases a ticket solely for the
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person's own use or the use of the person's invitees, employees or agents.
(8) "URL" means a uniform resource locator for a website on the
internet.
(g) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the Kansas
consumer protection act.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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