[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1549 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1549

    To amend the Act of September 30, 1961, to exclude professional 
baseball from the antitrust exemption applicable to certain television 
                               contracts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 1993

Mr. Bilirakis introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Act of September 30, 1961, to exclude professional 
baseball from the antitrust exemption applicable to certain television 
                               contracts.

    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 ``Baseball Antitrust Restoration 
Amendment of 1993''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    The Act of September 30, 1961 (15 U.S.C. 1291-1294) is amended--
            (1) in the first section by striking ``baseball,'' each 
        place it appears,
            (2) in sections 4 and 6 by striking ``baseball,'' each 
        place it appears, and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``Sec. 7. The antitrust laws referred to in section 1 shall apply 
with respect to joint agreements of the kind described in such section 
entered into by or among persons engaging in or conducting the 
organized professional team sport of baseball.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Effective Date.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act 
and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Application of Amendments.--With respect to joint agreements 
entered into before the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
amendments made by section 2 shall not apply until the expiration of 
the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.

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