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NY A10597

Bill

Status

Introduced

7/6/2022

Primary Sponsor

Nily Rozic

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Origin

Assembly

2021-2022 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Expands the definition of goods and services protected from price gouging during abnormal market disruptions to explicitly include fuel, energy, and transportation goods and services.

  • Adds product recalls leading to supply shortages as a qualifying cause for abnormal market disruption that triggers price gouging protections.

  • Broadens the scope of price gouging prohibitions to apply to all goods and services sold in or into New York State, regardless of where they were manufactured or originally located.

  • Requires the Attorney General to promulgate rules mandating periodic public disclosure of prices charged or proposed to be charged for fuel by all actors in the distribution chain.

  • Authorizes the Attorney General to promulgate additional rules requiring periodic price disclosure for other goods and services and to enforce price gouging prohibitions.

Legislative Description

Prohibits price gouging with respect to fuel, energy, and transportation goods and services; directs the attorney general to promulgate rules and regulations requiring the periodic public disclosure by actors in the chain of distribution for fuel sold in or into the state of the prices charged or proposed to be charged for fuel.

Last Action

referred to consumer affairs and protection

7/6/2022

Committee Referrals

Consumer Affairs and Protection7/6/2022

Full Bill Text

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