Assembly Bill A4482

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits price gouging on certain consumer goods sold at thruway gas stations, restaurants, and other facilities

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  • 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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2025-A4482 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §396-r, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9451
2023-2024: A3022

2025-A4482 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits price gouging on certain consumer goods sold at thruway gas stations, restaurants, and other facilities.

2025-A4482 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4482
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
   price gouging on certain consumer goods sold at thruway gas  stations,
   restaurants, and other facilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 396-r of the general business law,
 as amended by chapter 725 of the laws of 2023, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  (a)  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 distrib-
 ution 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 uncon-
 scionably excessive price.
   (b) For purposes of this section, the phrase "abnormal  disruption  of
 the market" shall mean any change in the market, whether actual or immi-
 nently  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 emergen-
 cy, drug shortage, or other cause  of  an  abnormal  disruption  of  the
 market  which  results in the declaration of a state of emergency by the
 governor.
   (c) For purposes of this section, the term "drug shortage" shall mean,
 with respect to any drug or medical product intended for human use, that
 such drug or medical product is publicly reported as being subject to  a
 shortage by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
   (d)  For  the  purposes of this section, the term "goods and services"
 shall include (i) consumer goods and services used, bought  or  rendered
 primarily  for  personal,  family  or household purposes, (ii) essential

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06734-01-5
              

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