Competition in Professional Baseball Act

Competition in Professional Baseball Act

This bill removes the limited exemption from the antitrust laws for professional baseball clubs. For purposes of this bill, the term antitrust laws means laws to protect against unlawful restraints and monopolies (Clayton Act) and to protect against unfair methods of competition (Federal Trade Commission Act).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2511 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2511

     To subject professional baseball clubs to the antitrust laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 2021

Mr. Duncan (for himself, Mr. Norman, Mrs. Greene of Georgia, Mr. Austin 
Scott of Georgia, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Roy, Mr. Carl, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Carter 
   of Georgia, Mr. Bishop of North Carolina, Mr. Weber of Texas, Ms. 
 Herrell, Mr. Steube, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Timmons, Mr. Biggs, 
 Ms. Tenney, Mr. Babin, Mr. Perry, Mr. Hice of Georgia, Mr. Crawford, 
    Mrs. Boebert, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Allen, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Moore of 
  Alabama, Mr. Gooden of Texas, Mr. Owens, Mr. Clyde, and Mr. Good of 
  Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To subject professional baseball clubs to the antitrust laws.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Competition in Professional Baseball 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL SUBJECT TO ANTITRUST LAWS.

    (a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``antitrust laws''--
            (1) has the meaning given the term in subsection (a) of the 
        first section of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12); and
            (2) includes section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act 
        (15 U.S.C. 45) to the extent that such section applies to 
        unfair methods of competition.
    (b) Removal of Exemption.--Professional baseball clubs shall not be 
exempt from the antitrust laws.
    (c) Repeal.--Section 27 of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 26b) is 
repealed.
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