[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1111 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1111

     To subject professional baseball clubs to the antitrust laws.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 14, 2021

    Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Rubio, and Mrs. 
  Blackburn) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               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repealed.
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