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Currently in California, price gouging protections only come into play during a state of emergency and bars sellers, contractors, business owners, and other similar entities from charging more ...
Under California law, price gouging protections kick in during a state of emergency and generally bar landlords, hotel and motels from charging more than 10% more than what they were charging or ...
Property owners may not jack up rental costs more than 10% in the wake of a disaster like the LA fires. Here's what tenants need to know.
During a storm-related state of emergency, Florida law prohibits price gouging for equipment, food, gasoline, hotel rooms, ice, lumber, and water needed as a direct result of the event, according ...
Florida's "state of emergency" law criminalizes price gouging. [21] A supplier of essential goods and services may be charged when it sharply raises prices in anticipation of or during a civil emergency or when it cancels or dishonors contracts in order to take advantage of an increase in prices related to such an emergency.
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In 2020, when Harris was a U.S. senator, she co-sponsored legislation that would have defined price gouging in an emergency as charging more than 10 percent above the previous average price.
More than 40 states ban price gouging, according to the letter, but a national ban, they argued, would give the federal government the power to address price gouging issues “that cannot be ...