[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1744 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1744

   To make the antitrust laws applicable to owners of teams of major 
 league professional baseball players, and to leagues composed of such 
teams, with respect to selecting the site at which any such team plays 
                     its regular season home games.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 1997

Mr. Schumer (for himself and Mr. Nadler) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To make the antitrust laws applicable to owners of teams of major 
 league professional baseball players, and to leagues composed of such 
teams, with respect to selecting the site at which any such team plays 
                     its regular season home games.

    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 ``Freedom of Movement for Baseball 
Teams Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ANTITRUST IMMUNITY APPLICABLE TO HOME LOCATIONS 
              OF PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL TEAMS.

    An owner of all or part of a team of major league professional 
baseball players shall not be immune to liability under the antitrust 
laws for entering into, attempting to enter into, performing, or 
enforcing a contract that is made (or attempted to be made) by 2 or 
more owners of teams of major league professional baseball players (or 
2 or more leagues composed of such teams) and that provides for 1 or 
more of such owners (or 1 or more of such leagues) to determine the 
location at which a team of major league professional baseball players 
plays its regular season home games.

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 such section 
applies to unfair methods of competition.
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