S 8221 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales

Summary
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part A); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part C); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part D); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part E); relates to paperless ticketing systems options (Part F); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment (Part G).
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced May 23, 2025 Last action May 12, 2026
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What changed between versions

S8221A S8221B · 3 edits
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This bill version adds Senator Zellner as a sponsor and includes additional procedural history indicating the bill was reprinted and re-recommitted to the committee. The substantive legal text regarding ticket resale fees, definitions, and regulations remains unchanged from the previous version.
TECHNICAL

Senator Zellner was added to the list of bill sponsors.

Additional procedural notes were added stating the bill was reprinted as amended and recommitted to the committee twice.

The bill number was updated from '8221--A' to '8221--B' and the internal page number reference was updated.

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Total actions
7
Key actions
4
Committee
3
Amendments
4
May 12, 2026
Committee
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
upper
May 4, 2026
Upper · Passed
PRINT NUMBER 8221B
upper
May 4, 2026
Upper · Passed
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
upper
Feb 6, 2026
Upper · Passed
PRINT NUMBER 8221A
upper
Feb 6, 2026
Upper · Passed
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
upper
Jan 7, 2026
Committee
REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
upper
May 23, 2025
Committee
REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
upper
1 primary · 18 co-sponsors

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