# 119-hr-8184: Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act

119-hr-8184, Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA-3] (D-WA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-8184
- Congress: 119
- Title: Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-04-02
- Sponsor: Rep. Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA-3] (D-WA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Commerce
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Expanded prohibition on price discrimination** would broaden the Clayton Act to cover both products and services and to reach more commercial activity. The bill would add new definitions and liability rules, and make it easier for injured buyers to claim damages. - Sellers and service providers: Firms that set different prices for different buyers would face broader liability because the law would cover "products or services" and any "activity affecting commerce." The bill also defines "purchase" and "purchaser" to include paying or granting value even when title does not pass. - Buyers and local businesses: Plaintiffs in price-discrimination suits would be conclusively presumed to have suffered damages equal to the monetary amount at issue, and they could seek additional damages beyond that presumption. - Enforcement and thresholds: The bill creates a new offense for anyone who induces or receives the benefits of discriminatory pricing and sets a $100 billion annual retail-sales threshold that limits enhanced liability to knowingly induced or received violations for entities at or below that level.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Riley, Josh [D-NY-19] (D-NY), 2026-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Presumed damages for price discrimination: benefit, medium. This bill would let a plaintiff who proves they were unlawfully charged different prices be conclusively presumed injured. Damages would equal the monetary amount or equivalent of the unlawful discrimination. Plaintiffs could also seek additional money if they suffered other losses because of the d…
- Liability for benefiting from unfair pricing: cost, high. This bill would make any person who induces or receives the benefit of unlawful price discrimination liable. For persons with annual retail sales of $100 billion or less, liability would require that they knowingly induced or knowingly received the benefit. For persons with annual retail sales abov…
- New price rules for businesses and buyers: mixed, high. This bill would expand the ban on price discrimination to cover products and services, including service activities. It would replace phrases like "in commerce" with "in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce." It would add definitions for "purchase" and "purchaser," recognize functional di…
- Only applies to future transactions: mixed, low. This bill would apply only to transactions occurring on or after the date of enactment. It would not make the new definitions, liability rules, or damages presumption retroactive to past transactions.

## Related bills

- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
- 119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2086: Rights for the TSA Workforce Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-8184 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8184)

## Related
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7853)
- [119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6900)
- [119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1229)
- [119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-20)
- [119-hr-2086: Rights for the TSA Workforce Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2086)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8184 (as of 2026-04-21).