Bill > SF2917

This bill modifies Minnesota's existing consumer protection law regarding mandatory fee advertisements, specifically focusing on exemptions for food and beverage service establishments. Currently, businesses are required to advertise the total price of goods or services, including all mandatory fees that consumers cannot reasonably avoid. The bill creates a specific exemption for food and beverage service establishments (as defined in Minnesota Statutes section 157.15, subdivision 5) from having to disclose mandatory fees or gratuities in their pricing advertisements. This means restaurants, hotels, and other food service businesses would no longer be legally obligated to clearly show automatic gratuities or additional service fees in their pricing displays. The bill amends two subdivisions of section 325D.44, removing the previous requirements for food and beverage establishments to provide detailed fee disclosures and adding a new explicit exemption to the law's existing list of exceptions. By creating this exemption, the bill aims to provide more flexibility for food and beverage service establishments in how they present pricing information to consumers.

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https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF2917&ssn=0&y=2025