Wednesday, February 18, 2026
California Introduces Bill to Cap Resale Ticket Prices
www.billboard.com: California could become the next state in the U.S. to put a limit on the price of resale concert tickets. Today (Feb. 5), California state assemblyman Matt Haney introduced a spot bill titled the California Fans First Act that would cap the price of a resold concert ticket to no more than 10% above the ticket’s original face value.
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I'm really glad this is happening, especially in a state with multiple cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco) that have major concert venues. I remember in my junior year of high school, I tried to buy second-hand tickets to see Boygenius on Halloween (Boogenius, an event I'd miss the original sale for by about an hour). My ticket, three middle-bowl tickets that originally sold for around $ 200 total, was $ 600 for my mom, my friend, and me at the Hollywood Bowl. That is a 200% increase in price for a 90-minute event. An event, which was in the middle of the school/work day, and of course, most likely has a waiting room of thousands of people, many of them bots. I think the next step in this legislation is to ban dynamic pricing, making tickets to see artists 1k+, while the person who bought it five minutes ago got the same ticket for 50-60% less, just because the line was a little shorter.
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