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

Current Text: Enrollment: 9/22/2025 
Last Amend: 9/5/2025
Status: 9/22/2025-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
Location: 9/22/2025-S. ENROLLED
Summary: Existing law, 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, at the time the violation occurred, liable for a civil
penalty not to exceed $2,500 for each violation, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions
and other existing laws.