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Senate panel approves bill letting governor and AG target price gouging after market disruptions
Summary
House Bill 10‑10 passed the Business, Labor and Technology Committee 4‑3; sponsors described a narrow mechanism allowing disaster declarations for market or trade disruptions and AG enforcement against unjustified price increases.
House Bill 10‑10, which would allow the governor to declare a disaster for certain market disruptions and empower the attorney general to enforce Colorado’s price‑gouging statute for affected goods or services, advanced out of the Business, Labor and Technology Committee on a 4–3 vote.
Sponsor Senator Weisman said the bill narrows authority to situations where a declared disaster creates market disruption — such as a refinery shutdown or trade disruption —…
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