ANTITRUST POLICY related term(s) Monopolies

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: regulate market concentration and competition in food and agriculture industry (see S. 2670), S3756 [27JY] (see H.R. 4979), H4137 [27JY]

Business and industry: repeal certain exemptions from antitrust laws (see H.R. 1696), H1325 [22MR]

Courts: eliminate mandatory arbitration clauses in employment, consumer, civil rights, and antitrust cases (see H.R. 2953), H2083 [27AP]

——— specify standards governing claims of consciously parallel pricing coordination in civil actions and clarify meaning of contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy under Sherman Act (see H.R. 2782), H1909 [20AP]

Dept. of Agriculture: establish Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters (see S. 346), S311 [9FE]

——— improve health and safety protections for meatpacking workers, protect market share of small processing plants, and require GAO report on racial disparities in meat and poultry processing (see S. 270), S230 [2FE] (see H.R. 798), H678 [2FE]

——— make unlawful acquisitions that would create monopolies in meatpacking industry (see S. 2818), S4525 [14SE]

Dept. of HHS: direct Assistant Sec. for Planning and Evaluation to conduct annual study on health care competition and consolidation at State level (see H.R. 2857), H1947 [25AP]

Dept. of Justice: prevent conflicts of interest and promote competition in sale and purchase of digital advertising (see S. 1073), S1088 [30MR]

FTC: make hospital organizations and cooperative hospital service organizations subject to antitrust enforcement relative to unfair methods of competition (see H.R. 2890), H2047 [26AP]

——— prohibit anticompetitive use of patents, known as product hopping, by drug product manufacturers (see S. 150), S147 [30JA]

GAO: evaluate effects of anticompetitive contracting clauses in contracts between health insurers and health care providers and assess FTC and Dept. of Justice antitrust enforcement actions relative to such clauses (see H.R. 2861), H1947 [25AP]

Health care facilities: repeal antitrust exemption applicable to graduate medical resident matching programs (see H.R. 2858), H1947 [25AP]

Information technology: prohibit certain discriminatory conduct by covered platforms (see S. 2033), S2123 [15JN]

Major League Baseball: require professional baseball club to compensate its home community if such club relocates its home field more than certain distance from its previous location (see H.R. 4071), H2883 [13JN]

Monopolies: make oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal (see S. 678), S669 [7MR] (see H.R. 3081), H2133 [5MY]

News media: provide temporary safe harbor from antitrust laws for publishers of online content to collectively negotiate with dominant online platforms about terms on which their content may be distributed (see S. 1094), S1089 [30MR]

Pharmaceuticals: prohibit use of patents, trade secrets, or other intellectual property to inhibit competition (see S. 574), S567 [1MR] (see H.R. 4692), H3640 [17JY]

SBA: examine how competitiveness of small businesses is affected by enforcement of Federal antitrust laws (see H.R. 5424), H4295 [13SE]

Sound recording and reproducing: empower independent music creator owners to collectively negotiate with dominant online platforms regarding terms on which their music may be distributed (see H.R. 5576), H4407 [19SE]

Sports: subject professional baseball clubs to antitrust laws (see S. 2010), S2122 [15JN] (see H.R. 147), H103 [9JA]

Remarks in House

Courts: eliminate mandatory arbitration clauses in employment, consumer, civil rights, and antitrust cases (H.R. 2953), H1935 [25AP], H2042 [26AP]

Dept. of Transportation: prohibit funding to conduct competition analysis of airline mergers, H5518 [7NO]

FTC: prohibit funding to implement, administer, or enforce policy statement relative to scope of unfair methods of competition, H5615 [8NO]

——— prohibit funding to implement, administer, or enforce suspension of early terminations to merger filings, H5616 [8NO]

Remarks in Senate

FTC: call for investigation into oil company mergers, S5270 [1NO], S5768 [6DE]

Reports filed

Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 150), S567 [1MR]

Journalism Competition and Preservation Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1094), S2984 [18JY]

Main Street Competes Act: Committee on Small Business (House) (H.R. 5424) (H. Rept. 118–222), H4496 [26SE]