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HB 1903 Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; prohibition on price gouging during time of resource shortage.

Introduced by: Ward L. Armstrong | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; resource shortages.  Expands the existing prohibition on post-disaster price gouging to prohibit a seller from selling necessary goods and services at an unconscionable price during the time of a resource shortage within any affected area of the Commonwealth.  A resource shortage is defined as an absence, unavailability, or reduced supply of certain natural resources, commodities, goods, or services that results from a state of emergency anywhere in the country when a presidential state of emergency is declared.

FULL TEXT

• 01/13/09  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 090401416  pdf | impact statement

HISTORY

• 01/13/09  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 090401416
• 01/13/09  House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
• 02/02/09  House: Assigned C & L sub: 2
• 02/10/09  House: Left in Commerce and Labor