HF6 Summary

• Prohibits sellers from charging unconscionably excessive prices for essential consumer goods and services (food, water, fuel, gasoline, shelter, transportation, health care, pharmaceuticals, and cleaning supplies) during declared abnormal market disruptions.

• Defines unconscionably excessive price as a gross disparity compared to the seller's average price in the 60-day period before declaration, with exemptions for prices related to increased costs, increases of 25 percent or less, commodity market fluctuations, and pre-established contract prices.

• Authorizes the governor to declare an abnormal market disruption by executive order when substantial and atypical market changes occur caused by events resulting in a state of emergency declaration, specifying the geographic area and duration affected.

• Requires the governor to post notice on government websites and notify media, while the commissioner of commerce must notify sellers of abnormal market disruption declarations.

• Subjects violators to civil penalties of up to $1,000 per sale or transaction with a maximum of $25,000 per day, enforceable by the attorney general, with no private right of action created.