2025 bills / H.B. 466
H.B. 466 Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill requires anyone filing a pre-merger notification with the Federal Trade Commission to also send an electronic copy of the Hart-Scott-Rodino form and related documents to the Utah attorney general, with no filing fee. It keeps those filings private under state records law, lets the attorney general share them when relevant to proceedings or with other states' attorneys general, and allows civil penalties for noncompliance.
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Official description
- defines terms
- provides that a pre-merger notification is a notification filed with the Federal Trade Commission accompanied by a Hart-Scott-Rodino form
- requires that a person filing a pre-merger notification file an electronic copy of a Hart-Scott-Rodino form and additional documentary material with the attorney general
- prohibits the attorney general from charging a fee connected with filing a Hart-Scott-Rodino form
- prohibits the attorney general from disclosing a Hart-Scott-Rodino form and other relevant information
- classifies a Hart-Scott-Rodino form and other relevant information as a private record under the Government Records Access and Management Act
- authorizes the attorney general to disclose a Hart-Scott-Rodino form and other relevant information if relevant to an administrative proceeding or a judicial action
- provides that the provisions enacted by this bill do not impact preexisting obligations of the attorney general
- authorizes the attorney general to disclose a Hart-Scott-Rodino form with the attorney general of another state under certain circumstances
- authorizes the attorney general to seek the imposition of a civil penalty for noncompliance with the provisions of this bill
- requires a court to promote uniformity among jurisdictions that enact the provisions of this bill
- limits the provisions of this bill to a pre-merger notification filed after the effective date of the bill
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 466 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 466 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 14 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 14 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 60 yes, 10 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how