The House of Representatives passed the Transparency in Charges for Key Events Ticketing (TICKET) Act on Wednesday, marking the latest step forward in the fight to reform the live events industry. The bill introduced in June 2023 passed with overwhelming bipartisan support of 338-24.

The TICKET Act would require all ticket sellers both primary and secondary to institute all-in pricing, where the advertised price of a ticket includes all applicable taxes and fees, rather than surprising customers at checkout. The legislation would also ban speculative ticketing, meaning when a secondary market retailer resells a ticket they do not possess. Other provisions include a ban on deceptive websites and deceptive marketing, requirements that ticket retailers must provide refunds or offer comparable replacement tickets for canceled events, and mandate the Federal Trade Commission issue a report on the BOTS Act Enforcement, which passed in 2016 to curb automatic bots from disrupting online ticketing sales.

After passing the House, the TICKET Act now heads to the Senate where it must pass before reaching President Joe Biden‘s desk for approval. The Senate does not currently have a floor vote planned for the measure. The Fans First Act, introduced by Senators Amy Klobuchar and John Cornyn in December and supported by nearly 300 artists last month, also awaits a vote in the Senate before it goes to the House. The Fans First Act would impose civil penalties on resellers engaging in illegal practices and strengthen the BOTS Act, which has only been enforced once by the FTC in eight years.

Ticketing platform Eventbrite, the president of The Recording Academy, the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), the Fix the Tix Coalition, and many more have praised the passage of the TICKET Act.

“The Fix the Tix Coalition, representing every major constituency of the music and live events industry, applauds the passage of H.R. 3950, the TICKET Act, as an important step towards restoring trust in the ticketing ecosystem,” Fix the Tix said in a statement. “The bill provides transparency with all-in pricing, and takes important steps to combat speculative tickets and deceptive websites. We urge the Senate to build on this progress by strengthening these provisions, increasing enforcement of the BOTS Act and providing additional avenues of enforcement to combat predatory and deceptive ticketing practices. The live entertainment ecosystem is counting on Congress to act in the best interests of fans to restore transparency and trust to our country’s broken ticketing system.”

The ACT passage came days after Live Nation reported that its recent move to all-in pricing yielded an 8% increase in completed sales in its first six months. The White House announced last June that Live Nation would adopt all-in ticket pricing, at the behest of President Biden and his crusade against junk fees. Per Pollstar, the country’s largest live entertainment company reported that 9,000 shows in 33 states and the District of Columbia have been sold using the all-in pricing model. Live Nation and its ticketing arm Ticketmaster had resisted adopting all-in ticket pricing for years unless it became the industry standard, claiming that it would put them at a disadvantage against other ticket retailers that did not enact the practice.