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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 147 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide that professional baseball teams, and leagues composed of such |
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| 6 | 6 | | teams, shall be subject to the antitrust laws. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY9, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. D |
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| 10 | 10 | | UNCAN(for himself, Mr. BIGGS, and Mr. BISHOPof North Carolina) |
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| 11 | 11 | | introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Judiciary |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To provide that professional baseball teams, and leagues |
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| 15 | 15 | | composed of such teams, shall be subject to the antitrust |
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| 16 | 16 | | laws. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Teddy Roosevelt Fair 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Competition and Public Trust Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. FINDING. 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | The Congress finds that the business of providing for 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | profit public baseball games between teams of professional 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 147 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | baseball players in a league and between such teams of 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | rival leagues is in, or affects, interstate commerce. 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 3. APPLICATION OF ANTITRUST LAWS TO PROFES-3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SIONAL BASEBALL. 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | The antitrust laws shall apply to the business of pro-5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | viding for profit public baseball games between teams of 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | professional baseball players and to leagues composed of 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | teams of professional baseball players. 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | SEC. 4. DEFINITION. 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘antitrust laws’’ 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | has the meaning given it in subsection (a) of the first sec-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | tion of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12(a)), except that 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | such term includes section 5 of the Federal Trade Com-13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | mission Act (15 U.S.C. 45) to the extent that such section 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 5 relates to unfair methods of competition. 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | SEC. 5. APPLICATION OF SECTION 3. 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Section 3 shall not apply with respect to conduct oc-17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | curring before the date of the enactment of this Act. 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | Æ |
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