3.0.0 3647 2023-01-11T13:42:43Z 2023-01-11T13:42:43Z Senate S 2020-05-07 116 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-05-07T18:26:34Z 2020-05-07 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2020-05-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ N Commerce Civil actions and liability Consumer affairs Disaster relief and insurance Emergency medical services and trauma care Government information and archives Infectious and parasitic diseases Inflation and prices State and local government operations Commerce

00 2020-05-07 Introduced in Senate 2021-03-16T19:15:25Z 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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