Senate Bill S238

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to price gouging

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S238 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §396-r, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S4094
2011-2012: S2023
2015-2016: S1122
2017-2018: S2034, S7028
2019-2020: S1642

2013-S238 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to price gouging; imposes criminal penalties for price gouging; removes language relating to the declaration of a state of emergency; increases civil penalty

2013-S238 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S238 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   238

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to price gouging

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  396-r of the general business law, as amended by
chapter 510 of the laws of 1998, subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 224
of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
  S 396-r. Price gouging. 1. Legislative findings and  declaration.  The
legislature  hereby  finds that during periods of abnormal disruption of
the market caused by strikes, power failures, severe shortages or  other
extraordinary  adverse  circumstances,  some parties within the chain of
distribution of consumer goods have taken unfair advantage of  consumers
by  charging  grossly  excessive prices for essential consumer goods and
services.
  In order to prevent any party within the chain of distribution of  any
consumer goods from taking unfair advantage of consumers during abnormal
disruptions  of  the  market,  the  legislature declares that the public
interest requires that such conduct be prohibited and  made  subject  to
civil AND CRIMINAL penalties.
  2. During any abnormal disruption of the market for consumer goods and
services  vital  and  necessary  for  the  health, safety and welfare of
consumers, no party within the chain of distribution  of  such  consumer
goods  or services or both shall sell or offer to sell any such goods or
services or both for an amount which represents an unconscionably exces-
sive  price.  For  purposes  of  this  section,  the  phrase   "abnormal
disruption  of  the market" shall mean any change in the market, whether
actual or imminently  threatened,  resulting  from  stress  of  weather,
convulsion  of  nature,  failure  or shortage of electric power or other
source of energy, strike, civil disorder, war, military action, national

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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