[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 147 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 147

 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 9, 2023

 Mr. Duncan (for himself, Mr. Biggs, and Mr. Bishop of North Carolina) 
 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Teddy Roosevelt Fair Competition and 
Public Trust Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. APPLICATION OF SECTION 3.

    Section 3 shall not apply with respect to conduct occurring before 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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