Price Gouging Prevention Act

United States116th CongressHR-6450House of Representatives
Updated: Apr 3, 2020

Summary

Price Gouging Prevention Act This bill makes it unlawful for any person to sell, or offer for sale, a consumer good during a federally-declared emergency at a price that (1) exceeds 10% of the price charged by similarly-situated sellers of such good during the 120 days before the emergency was declared. However, such a price increase may not be a violation if the increase is (1) attributable to additional costs incurred by the seller to provide the consumer good, or (2) is not more than 10% greater than a combination of the total cost incurred by the seller and the customary price markup of the good. The bill grants the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general the authority to enforce compliance with the requirements of this bill.

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Timeline

Latest companion bill action

S-3853: Price Gouging Prevention Act

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

  1. Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

    House of Representatives

  2. Introduced in House

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