Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jun 06, 2020 | signed chap.90 |
Jun 05, 2020 | delivered to governor |
May 27, 2020 | returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.30 substituted for a10270 |
May 27, 2020 | substituted by s8189 rules report cal.30 reported |
May 26, 2020 | reported referred to rules reported referred to codes |
Apr 08, 2020 | referred to consumer affairs and protection |
assembly Bill A10270
Signed By GovernorSponsored By
ROZIC
Archive: Last Bill Status Via S8189 - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor Calendar
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed by Governor
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Co-Sponsors
Jeffrey Dinowitz
David Buchwald
Felix Ortiz
Joseph Lentol
A10270 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S8189
- Law Section:
- General Business Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §396-r, Gen Bus L
A10270 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10270 I N A S S E M B L Y April 8, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and 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: § 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 [consum- ers] THE PUBLIC 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] THE PUBLIC during abnormal disruptions of the market, the legislature declares that the public interest requires that such conduct be prohibited and made subject to civil 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 OR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, no party within the chain of distrib- ution 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 repres- ents an unconscionably excessive 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 or local emergency, or other cause of an abnormal disruption of the market which results in the declaration of a state of emergency by the governor. For the purposes of this section, the term [consumer] goods and services shall [mean those] INCLUDE (A) CONSUMER EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets