Fair Grocery Pricing Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 1788 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1788 To prohibit the use of algorithmic systems by food producers to artificially inflate the price or reduce the supply of their foods. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 3, 2025 Mr. Frost introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To prohibit the use of algorithmic systems by food producers to artificially inflate the price or reduce the supply of their foods. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Grocery Pricing Act''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Chair.--The term ``Chair'' means the Chair of the Commission. (2) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal Trade Commission. (3) Consciously parallel pricing coordination.--The term ``consciously parallel pricing coordination'' means a tacit agreement between 2 or more food producers to raise, lower, change, maintain, or manipulate pricing for the purchase or sale of reasonably interchangeable food products. (4) Coordinating function.--The term ``coordinating function'' means-- (A) collecting historical or contemporaneous food product prices or supply levels from 2 or more food producers; (B) analyzing or processing of the information described in subparagraph (A) using a system, software, or process that uses computation, including by using that information to train an algorithm; and (C) recommending food prices, supply or output, or other commercial term to a food producer. (5) Coordinator.--The term ``coordinator'' means any person that operates a software or data analytics service that performs a coordinating functi