Hotel & Lodging Price Gouging During Emergencies

Current understanding

Michigan SB 1041 (103rd Legislature) would create a new act prohibiting excessively increased pricing by the hotel and lodging industry during a declared state of emergency. The bill is tie-barred to SB 1042 and SB 1043 and has passed a chamber. It extends consumer-protection style anti-price-gouging rules specifically to lodging providers, affecting hotels, motels, and short-term lodging operators as well as travelers displaced or relocated during emergencies.

Evidence log

• 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 emergency-price-gouging-goods-services: HB6102 and its tie-barred companions HB6103/HB6104 appear to mirror the SB1041/SB1042/SB1043 emergency-pricing package, linking general goods/services price gouging with hotel/lodging price gouging during declared emergencies. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-25 — Trade: business practices; excessively increased pricing for energy products and services during a market disruption; prohibit. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: SB 1041’26, SB 1042’26: cross-connection with energy-price-gouging-market-disruption: SB 1043 is tie-barred with SB 1041 (hotel/lodging price gouging during declared emergencies); part of a three-bill package expanding Michigan price-gouging protections. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-25 — Trade: business practices; excessively increased pricing for certain goods and services during a declared state of emergency; prohibit. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: SB 1041’26, SB 1043’26: cross-connection with emergency-price-gouging-goods-services: SB 1042 (general goods/services price gouging) is tie-barred with SB 1041 (hotel/lodging price gouging); together they form a coordinated Michigan emergency-pricing package. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-25 — Housing: public accommodations; excessively increased pricing in hotel and lodging industry during a declared state of emergency; prohibit. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: SB 1042’26, SB 1043’26: cross-connection with surveillance-pricing-prohibition: Both extend Michigan consumer-protection pricing rules — surveillance pricing broadly and hotel/lodging price gouging during emergencies. (novelty: 2)

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