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Committee backs higher penalties for retail mispricing after repeated failures
Summary
The Government Operations Committee voted to send HB 493 to the full House after sponsor testimony that repeated price mismatches — including one inspection finding 48% of items mispriced — showed current fines were insufficient to change behavior. The bill increases stepped penalties and codifies enforcement authority for UDAF weights and measures.
Representative Prusci told the committee that routine inspections by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food’s (UDAF) weights and measures program uncovered persistent problems with price tags not matching register charges at retail stores, including a case in Utah County that failed 28 price inspections and one inspection where 48% of sampled items were out of compliance. "They received $5,000 in fines, but that was not enough to motivate them to actually fix the issues," the sponsor said.
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