The House approves banning the separate promoter-fee charge

On August 24, 2026, Precision reports from San Juan that the House of Representatives approved in ordinary session House Bill 1031, to create the Public-Show Ticket-Sales Transparency Act, which will ban charging consumers separate fees, such as the promoter fee and the venue fee. The measure also amends the Purchase-Receipt Transparency Act. It seeks to stop a practice that, according to the text Precision reproduces, has made the box office more expensive and limited access to art, culture, and entertainment. The page timed out when opened. What that URL left indexed is written.

The only exception to the ban, according to Precision, includes service charges of the ticketing companies that correspond to the direct technological management of issuing tickets, and taxes applicable by law. Recent administrative determinations of the Department of Consumer Affairs, it adds, treat the promoter charge as one imposed in addition to the compensation agreed with the artists and charged at the box office to the consumer, not as a cost the consumer has to pay a third party. The excerpt has no ticket count and no average charge. They are not invented.

Joined to that measure was House Bill 429, by Lourdes Ramos Rivera, to return to the consumer the entirety of the charges - service, sales tax, and the rest - when the show is suspended or canceled. Precision places there a fine that starts at 1,000 dollars for noncompliance in case of suspension or cancellation. This URL's ledger lists fines of 1,000 to 10,000 dollars. El Nuevo Día, the same 24th, covered 429 with 15 days and a 3 percent retainable, without putting in that piece the 1,000 to 10,000 range. They are not flattened. This note leaves 1031 as the anchor and 429 as the measure Precision said joined it.

On January 10, El Nuevo Día covered Jorge Navarro Suárez filing the promoter-fee ban. On February 9, NotiCel covered the Consumer Affairs Commission hearing. August 24 is the vote. Three dates, one fee. That filing is not rewritten. The approval is named.

Anyone looking for the voted text or the names of all coauthors has to go to the House and to Precision. What remain are House Bill 1031, the technology exception, and the venue fee. This is not original reporting.

Source: Precision. https://precision.com.do/camara-aprueba-prohibir-el-cobro-del-promoter-fee/