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

Current Text: Enrolled: 9/13/2025 html pdf
Last Amend: 9/5/2025
Status: 9/11/2025-Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8.) Ordered to engrossing and
enrolling.
Location: 9/11/2025-S. ENROLLMENT
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.