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“ANTITRUST CRIMINAL PENALTY ENHANCEMENT AND REFORM PERMANENT EXTENSION ACT” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Senate section on pages S3625-S3626 on June 25, 2020.
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ANTITRUST CRIMINAL PENALTY ENHANCEMENT AND REFORM PERMANENT EXTENSION
ACT
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged and the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. 3377.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The clerk will report the bill by title.
The legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 3377) to amend the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 to repeal the sunset provision.
There being no objection, the committee was discharged and the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time.
Mr. McCONNELL. I know of no further debate on the bill.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
There being no further debate, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass?
The bill (S. 3377) was passed, as follows
S. 3377
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).
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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