SB 36 (Umberg D) Price gouging: state of emergency

Current Text: Amended: 2/24/2025 
Last Amend: 2/24/2025
Status: 3/5/2025-Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S.
Location: 3/5/2025-S. JUD.
Summary: The Unfair Competition Law makes various practices unlawful and provides that a person
who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition is liable for a civil penalty, as
specified. This bill would additionally make a person who violates those provisions, if the act or acts of
unfair competition are perpetrated against one or more persons displaced due to a state of emergency
or local emergency, as defined, liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 for each violation, as
specified.