Bill Text: CA AB329 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Ticket sellers: equitable online ticket buying process: sale or use of circumventing software.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 325, Statutes of 2013. [AB329 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB329-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 329 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 325
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY MAY 23, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 7, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 25, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 18, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 21, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Pan
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Fong and Wieckowski)
(Coauthors: Senators Beall and Cannella)
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
An act to add Section 22505.5 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to business.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 329, Pan. Ticket sellers: equitable online ticket buying
process: sale or use of circumventing software.
Existing law provides for the comprehensive regulation of ticket
sellers, and, among other things, requires disclosure of specified
information to consumers and the maintenance of records and a
permanent business address. Existing law provides that a violation of
the laws regulating ticket sellers is a misdemeanor.
This bill would additionally provide that a person who
intentionally uses software to circumvent a security measure, access
control system, or other control or measure on a ticket seller's
Internet Web site that is used to ensure an equitable ticket buying
process is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Because this bill would create a new crime, it would impose a
state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 22505.5 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
22505.5. Notwithstanding Section 22503.5, 22503.6, 22504, or
22511, a person who intentionally uses or sells software to
circumvent a security measure, access control system, or other
control or measure on a ticket seller's Internet Web site that is
used to ensure an equitable ticket buying process is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.
