BILL NUMBER: AB 1832	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ian Calderon

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2014

   An act to amend Section 22505.5 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to business.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1832, as amended, Ian Calderon. Ticket sellers: equitable
 online  ticket buying process: sale or use of
circumventing software.
   Existing law provides that a person who intentionally uses or
sells software to circumvent a security 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.  Existing law
also provides that a violation of the laws regulating ticket sellers
is a misdemeanor. 
   This bill would  remove   instead make it
unlawful for a person to intentionally use or sell software to
circumvent a security control or measure that is used to ensure an
equitable ticket buying process, thereby removing  the
limitation that the software be used to circumvent a security control
or measure on the ticket seller's Internet Web site.
   By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would
impose a state-mandate 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.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 22505.5 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   22505.5.  Notwithstanding Section 22503.5, 22503.6, 22504, or
22511,  it shall be unlawful for  a person  who
  to  intentionally  uses  use
 or  sells   sell  software to
circumvent a security measure, access control system, or other
control or measure that is used to ensure an equitable ticket buying
 process is guilty of a misdemeanor.   process.

  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.