Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4528 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4528 To make price gouging unlawful, to expand the ability of the Federal Trade Commission to seek permanent injunctions and equitable relief, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 17, 2025 Ms. Schakowsky (for herself, Mr. Deluzio, Ms. Norton, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Craig, and Ms. Goodlander) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To make price gouging unlawful, to expand the ability of the Federal Trade Commission to seek permanent injunctions and equitable relief, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2025''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. Sec. 3. Prevention of price gouging. Sec. 4. Disclosures in SEC filings. Sec. 5. Funding. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal Trade Commission. (2) Critical trading partner.--The term ``critical trading partner'' means a person that has the ability to restrict, impede, or foreclose access to the inputs, customers, partners, goods, services, technology, platform, facili