Stabilization Act of 1942

Stabilization Act of 1942

Other short titles	Emergency Price Control Amendment of 1942
Long title	An Act to amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to aid in preventing inflation, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	PCSA
Nicknames	Price Control Stabilization Act of 1942
Enacted by	the 77th United States Congress
Effective	October 2, 1942
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 77–729
Statutes at Large	56 Stat. 765
Codification
Acts amended	Emergency Price Control Act of 1942
Titles amended	50 U.S.C.: War and National Defense
U.S.C. sections created	50a U.S.C. § 961
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 7565 by Henry B. Steagall (D-AL) on September 21, 1942 Committee consideration by House Banking and Currency, Senate Banking and Currency Passed the House on September 23, 1942 (284-96) Passed the Senate on September 30, 1942 (82-0) Reported by the joint conference committee on October 2, 1942; agreed to by the House on October 2, 1942 (Agreed) and by the Senate on October 2, 1942 (Agreed) Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 2, 1942

The Stabilization Act of 1942 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 77–729, 56 Stat. 765, enacted October 2, 1942), formally entitled "An Act to Amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to Aid in Preventing Inflation, and for Other Purposes," and sometimes referred to as the "Inflation Control Act",^[1] was an act of Congress that amended the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942.