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    <item congress="117" measure-type="hr" measure-number="8777" measure-id="id117hr8777" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2022-09-06" update-date="2023-08-30">
        <title>Competitive Prices Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id117hr8777v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2023-08-30">
            <action-date>2022-09-06</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Competitive Prices Act</b></p> <p>This bill makes a consciously parallel pricing coordination (i.e., a tacit agreement among two or more persons to raise, lower, change, maintain, or manipulate pricing for the purchase or sale of reasonably interchangeable products or services) a prohibited form of price fixing.</p>]]></summary-text>
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