Report Title:

Ticket Brokers; Credit Card Fee Disclosure; Refund of Fees

Description:

Makes it an unfair or deceptive act or practice in trade or commerce for a ticket broker to fail to disclose that a fee will be charged when the consumer uses a credit card to buy tickets.  Requires a ticket broker to refund all service fees paid when an event is canceled.  (SD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	776
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO TICKET SALES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 481B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§481B‑   Ticket brokers; fees; cancellation. (a)  No ticket broker shall charge a fee for the use of a credit card to purchase tickets without first disclosing that a fee will be charged.

(b)  A ticket broker shall refund any and all service fees charged for the purchase of a ticket when the public exhibition, game, contest, or performance for which the ticket was purchased is canceled.

(c)  For the purposes of this section, "ticket broker" means any person engaged in the business of selling tickets of admission or any other evidence of right of entry to a theater, place of amusement or entertainment, or other place where public exhibitions, games, contests, or performances are held, at a price greater than the price printed on the ticket."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.