DENVER — An effort to update Colorado's ticketing statutes for the first time since 2008 was shut down in the eleventh hour this week.
Gov. Jared Polis vetoed Senate Bill 60, which would have prohibited many common practices in the event ticket industry, classifying them as “deceptive trade practices."
This included banning “speculative ticketing,” in which companies resell tickets they do not yet own and customers are often not guaranteed to receive the tickets they purchase.
If made law, the bill would have also required ticket sellers to disclose total costs upfront, prohibited raising prices once a ticket has been selected for purchase, and banned resellers from using similar web designs or URLs to falsely present as an event’s official ticket seller, among other changes.
> The video below aired March 29: Colorado's ticketing woes trace back to a 2008 law 'protecting scalpers':
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