[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 106 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 106

 To provide that professional baseball teams, and leagues composed of 
          such teams, shall be subject to the antitrust laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 1995

 Mr. Bilirakis (for himself, Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Bunning of Kentucky, and 
  Mr. Owens) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that professional baseball teams, and leagues composed of 
          such teams, shall be subject 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. FINDING.

    The Congress finds that the business of providing for profit public 
baseball games between teams of professional baseball players in a 
league and between such teams of rival leagues is in, or affects, 
interstate commerce.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF ANTITRUST LAWS TO PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL.

    The antitrust laws shall apply to the business of providing for 
profit public baseball games between teams of professional baseball 
players and to leagues composed of teams of professional baseball 
players.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``antitrust laws'' has the 
meaning given it in subsection (a) of the first section of the Clayton 
Act (15 U.S.C. 12(a)), except that such term includes section 5 of the 
Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45) to the extent that such 
section 5 relates to unfair methods of competition.

SEC. 4. APPLICATION OF SECTION 2.

    Section 2 shall not apply with respect to conduct occurring before 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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