Bill Text: TX HB3528 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the Internet domain name used by a website that sells tickets to events.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3528 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3528-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the Internet domain name used by a website that sells tickets to events.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3528 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3528-Introduced.html
86R7634 TSR-F | ||
By: Moody | H.B. No. 3528 |
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relating to the Internet domain name used by a website that sells | ||
tickets to events. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 10, Business & Commerce Code, | ||
is amended by adding Chapter 327 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 327. INTERNET WEBSITE DOMAIN NAMES FOR TICKET SELLERS | ||
Sec. 327.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "Internet domain name" means a globally unique, | ||
hierarchical reference to an Internet host or service that is: | ||
(A) assigned through a centralized Internet | ||
naming authority; and | ||
(B) composed of a series of character strings | ||
separated by periods with the right-most string specifying the top | ||
of the hierarchy. | ||
(2) "Ticket website" means an Internet website | ||
advertising or offering the sale of tickets, or offering tickets | ||
for resale, to an event in this state. | ||
(3) "Venue" means an arena, stadium, theater, concert | ||
hall, or other place used for events such as an exhibition or a | ||
concert performance. | ||
(4) "Website operator" means a person who owns, | ||
operates, or controls a ticket website for an event scheduled at a | ||
venue in this state. | ||
Sec. 327.002. TICKET WEBSITE DOMAIN NAME RESTRICTED. (a) | ||
Except as provided by Subsection (b), a website operator may not | ||
intentionally use an Internet domain name, or any subdomain of the | ||
Internet domain name, in a ticket website's uniform resource | ||
locator that contains any of the following: | ||
(1) the name of the venue holding an event to which the | ||
ticket website offers tickets for sale or resale; | ||
(2) the name of an exhibition or performance or of | ||
another event described by Subdivision (1), including the name of | ||
an artist scheduled to perform at the venue; or | ||
(3) any name substantially similar to those in | ||
Subdivision (1) or (2). | ||
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a website operator who | ||
is authorized by the venue, a performing artist scheduled to | ||
perform at the venue, or the event's organizer to act on the | ||
venue's, artist's, or event's behalf. | ||
Sec. 327.003. DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICE. A violation of | ||
this chapter is a deceptive trade practice under Subchapter E, | ||
Chapter 17, and is actionable under that subchapter. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |