June 25, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 117 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

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 ANTITRUST CRIMINAL PENALTY ENHANCEMENT AND REFORM PERMANENT EXTENSION 
                                  ACT

  Mr. NADLER. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 7036) to amend the Anitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and 
Reform Act of 2004 to repeal the sunset provision, and ask for its 
immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from New York?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 7036

       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 ``Antitrust Criminal Penalty 
     Enhancement and Reform Permanent Extension Act''.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Conspiracies among competitors to fix prices, rig bids, 
     and allocate markets are categorically and irredeemably 
     anticompetitive and contravene the competition policy of the 
     United States.
       (2) Cooperation incentives are important to the efforts of 
     the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice to 
     prosecute and deter the offenses described in paragraph (1).
       (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act, and the amendments 
     made by this Act, is to strengthen public and private 
     antitrust enforcement by providing incentives for antitrust 
     violators to cooperate fully with government prosecutors and 
     private litigants through the repeal of the sunset provision 
     of the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act 
     of 2004 (15 U.S.C. 1 note).

     SEC. 3. REPEAL OF SUNSET PROVISION.

       (a) In General.--Section 211 of the Antitrust Criminal 
     Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 (15 U.S.C. 1 note) 
     is repealed.
       (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 212 of 
     the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 
     2004 (15 U.S.C. 1 note) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (6); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (7) as paragraph (6).

  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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