CLEAN Mergers Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, CLEAN Mergers Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors. The main policy domain is Criminal Justice, Government Operations, Finance.
Who Benefits and How
law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section id2c4a64f3431447a19ad9927d394f5fb9: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Correcting Lapsed Enforcement in Antitrust Norms for Mergers Act or the CLEAN Mergers Act.
- Section id459ff6a4bb9144fea69ef8fb46c66456: 2. Divestiture of threshold transactions; review of enforcement-lapse transactions The Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section...
- Section ID209F828F35DD4E2381DED83FD5EFEBC3: 7B. In this section— the term agencies means the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of...
- Section id8513ac2ced6f434498ca933dd13f18d4: 3. Limitations for antitrust actions Section 4B of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 15b) is amended, in the first sentence, by striking four years and inserting 10...
- Section idcfb817373f2449288c66fbb88e719a3c: 4. Severability If any provision of this Act, an amendment made by this Act, or the application of such provision or amendment to any person or circumstance is...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, CLEAN Mergers Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.
Key Policy Areas
Criminal Justice, Government Operations, Finance
Primary Purpose
This bill, CLEAN Mergers Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Booker (for himself, Ms. Warren, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Murphy, …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
an acquisition subject to section 7A, including any transaction exempt from the requirements of subsection (c) of that section, during the covered period
an acquisition subject to section 7A, including any transaction exempt from the requirements of subsection (c) of that section, during the covered period
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