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AZ SB1188

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Analise Ortiz

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

AI Summary

  • Prohibits sellers in the chain of distribution from charging 25% or more above pre-disruption prices during abnormal market disruptions for goods or services necessary for health, safety, and welfare.

  • Defines "abnormal disruption of the market" as any change resulting from weather, natural disasters, power failures, strikes, civil disorder, war, or other causes that triggers a gubernatorial emergency declaration.

  • Applies to manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, distributors, and retail sellers of goods or services.

  • Requires the Arizona Attorney General to enforce the price regulation restrictions.

  • Establishes violations as class 2 misdemeanors, or class 1 misdemeanors if committed intentionally, with each violation and each day of violation counted as separate offenses.

Legislative Description

Price regulation; abnormal market disruptions

Prohibition

Last Action

Senate read second time

1/28/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules1/27/2025
Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency1/27/2025

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