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Committee approves AB 380 to align price-gouging protections with emergency declarations
Summary
AB 380 would extend state price-gouging protections for hotels, food and other essential goods and services for the full duration of an emergency declaration and close a 12-month lease loophole; the committee passed the bill as amended to Appropriations.
Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez presented AB 380 to the Public Safety Committee, proposing changes to Penal Code section 396 (price gouging) to extend protections for hotels, food and essential goods and services for the full duration of an emergency declaration and to close a loophole landlords were using by offering leases longer than 12 months.
"AB 380 addresses these issues by extending price gouging protections for hotels, food, and other essential goods and services for the full duration of an emergency declaration," Gonzales said. He added that organizers had documented thousands…
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