Senate Bill S4565

2021-2022 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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2021-S4565 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5850
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §396-r, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S3656
2015-2016: S2825, A2133
2017-2018: S5440, A334
2019-2020: S803, A237
2023-2024: S3079

2021-S4565 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to price gouging; defines unconscionably excessive price for the purposes of prohibiting price gouging during abnormal disruption of the market.

2021-S4565 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4565 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4565
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 90 of the laws of 2020, 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 goods have taken  unfair  advantage  of  the  public  by
 charging grossly excessive prices for essential goods and services.
   In  order to prevent any party within the chain of distribution of any
 goods from  taking  unfair  advantage  of  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 goods and services
 vital  and  necessary for the health, safety and welfare of consumers or
 the general public, no party within the chain of  distribution  of  such
 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
 or local emergency, or other cause of  an  abnormal  disruption  of  the
 market  [which],  WHERE SUCH ABNORMAL DISRUPTION results in the declara-
 tion of a state of emergency by the governor. For the purposes  of  this
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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