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Prevent Emergency and Disaster Profiteering Act of 2020

Introduced: May 7, 2020 Introduced by: Booker, Cory A. Democratic · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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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.

What's happening now May 7, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3647: Prevent Emergency and Disaster Profiteering Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3647/
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"S. 3647: Prevent Emergency and Disaster Profiteering Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3647/.
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S. 3647, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3647/.
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