HB 955

Enacts Article 52, in GS Chapter 66, the North Carolina Junk Fee Prevention Act, to regulate covered entities , defined as providers of short-term lodging (limited to six months or less), entities that advertise rates or the purchase of short-term lodging and other entities determined appropriate by the Attorney General (AG). Requires covered entities to clearly display the total price of the good or service provided in each advertisement and when a price is first shown to a customer, including any mandatory fees a consumer would incur during the transaction. Defines mandatory fees to include required, reasonably unavoidable, or unexpected fees or surcharges, with discretion for the AG to include others deemed appropriate in this definition.