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S. 3647

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A bill to prohibit price gouging for necessary products during federally declared national emergencies or disasters.
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Committee
Latest Action · May 7, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced
May 7, 2020
Cosponsors (0)
None
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Prevent Emergency and Disaster Profiteering Act of 2020 This bill makes it unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale a designated good or service at a price that is unconscionably excessive during a federally-declared emergency or disaster. The Department of Health and Human Services may designate a list of necessary goods or services during an emergency period and establish a margin over which an increase in the average price of such goods or services is deemed unconscionably excessive.

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