[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2890 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2890

      To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to make hospital 
organizations and cooperative hospital service organizations subject to 
           the law relating to unfair methods of competition.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2023

  Ms. Jayapal (for herself and Mrs. Spartz) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to make hospital 
organizations and cooperative hospital service organizations subject to 
           the law relating to unfair methods of competition.

    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 ``Stop Anticompetitive Healthcare Act 
of 2023''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    The 2d undesignated paragraph of section 4 of the Federal Trade 
Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 44) is amended by inserting before the period 
at the end the following:
`` , and includes with respect to unfair methods of competition, any 
hospital organization or cooperative hospital service organization that 
is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code''.
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