Emergency Price Gouging Prohibition (HB6102)

Current understanding

HB6102 would create a new Michigan act prohibiting excessively increased pricing for certain goods and services during a declared state of emergency. The bill is tie-barred with HB6103’26 and HB6104’26, and applies broadly across goods and services rather than being limited to energy products. Status: introduced.

Evidence log

• 2026-06-17 — Trade: business practices; excessively increased pricing for energy products and services during a market disruption; prohibit. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6102’26, HB 6103’26: cross-connection with energy-price-gouging-prohibition: HB6104 (energy-specific price gouging) is tie-barred with HB6102 (general emergency price gouging), linking the energy-sector prohibition to the broader consumer-protection measure in the same House package. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-17 — Trade: business practices; excessively increased pricing for certain goods and services during a declared state of emergency; prohibit. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6103’26, HB 6104’26: cross-connection with energy-price-gouging-prohibition: Both bills advance anti-price-gouging prohibitions in the same session; SB1043 targets energy products during market disruptions while HB6102 covers goods and services generally during declared emergencies. (novelty: 3)

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