ANTITRUST POLICY related term(s) Monopolies

Bills and resolutions

Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act: repeal sunset provision (see S. 3377), S1297 [3MR] (see S. 4346), S4544 [28JY] (see H.R. 7036), H2321 [27MY] (see H.R. 7882), H4189 [30JY]

Business and industry: deter anticompetitive exclusionary conduct that harms competition and consumers and enhance ability of Dept. of Justice and FTC to enforce antitrust laws (see S. 3426), S1672 [10MR]

Courts: provide immunity for individual members of State occupational licensing boards that meet appropriate standards from liability for antitrust damages (see H.R. 8680), H5705 [23OC]

FTC: exercise authority relative to mergers under certain antitrust legislation and only in the same procedural manner as the Dept. of Justice exercises such authority (see S. 4876), S6597 [25OC]

——— impose moratorium on certain corporate mergers and acquisitions during coronavirus disease pandemic (see S. 4013), S3101 [18JN] (see H.R. 6989), H2276 [22MY]

——— increase penalties during coronavirus emergency (see S. 3862), S2649 [2JN]

——— transfer antitrust enforcement functions to Dept. of Justice (see S. 4918), S7076 [18NO]

Whistleblowing: provide anti-retaliation protections for antitrust whistleblowers (see H.R. 8226), H4336 [11SE]

Notices

Estimated budget effects of H.R. 1418, Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act, H4639 [21SE]

Remarks in House

Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act: repeal sunset provision (H.R. 7036), H2439 [25JN]

FTC: prohibit anticompetitive use of patents by drug product manufacturers, H1601 [11MR], H3629, H3632, H3635 [22JY]

Insurance: restore application of Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers (H.R. 1418), H4571–H4573 [21SE]

Whistleblowing: provide anti-retaliation protections for antitrust whistleblowers (S. 2258), H7007–H7009 [8DE]

Remarks in Senate

Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act: repeal sunset provision (S. 3377), S3625, S3626 [25JN]

——— repeal sunset provision (S. 4346), S4550 [28JY]

Courts: eliminate mandatory arbitration clauses in employment, consumer, civil rights, and antitrust cases (H.R. 1423), unanimous-consent request, S6441 [24OC]

FTC: prohibit anticompetitive use of patents by drug product manufacturers (S. 1416), S71 [8JA], S1099 [24FE], S7127 [1DE]

Insurance: restore application of Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers (H.R. 1418), S7929 [21DE]

——— restore application of Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers (S. 350), S7966 [29DE]

Reports filed

Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Through Promoting Competition Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 5133) (H. Rept. 116–695), H9151 [24DE]

Texts of

H.R. 1418, Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act, H4571 [21SE]

H.R. 7036, Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Permanent Extension Act, H2439 [25JN]

S. 2258, Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act, H7007 [8DE]

S. 3377, Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Permanent Extension Act, S3625 [25JN]

S. 4346, Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Permanent Extension Act, S4547, S4550 [28JY]