A legislative package addressing pandemic-related price gouging sponsored by Assemblywoman Nily Rozic passed the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection on Tuesday, March 29.
Rozic’s bill, A9193A, would triple penalties for instances of fraud in order to deter bad actors. It focuses on fraudulent conduct during an abnormal disruption of the market such as the coronavirus pandemic. Another bill, A5860, sponsored by Rozic’s colleague, Assemblywoman Karines Reyes, would add medications facing supply shortages to the list of goods prohibited from being sold at high prices under the state’s price gouging statute.
