H.R. 12688 — A bill to reaffirm the national public policy and the purposes of Congress in enacting the Robinson-Patman Antiprice Discrimination Act entitled "An Act to amend section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies.

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Specifies, under the Robinson-Patman Act, that price discrimination shall be deemed to include the failure to impose price differentials between purchasers in different functional classes. States that the character of the selling of the purchasers, not the buying, shall determine the classification.

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H.R. 12562A bill to reaffirm the national public policy and the purposes of Congress in enacting the Robinson-Patman Antiprice Discrimination Act entitled "An Act to amend section 2 of the Act entitled 'An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,' approved October 15, 1914, as amended (U.S.C., title 15, sec. 13), and for other purposes", and to clarify the intent and meaning of the aforesaid law by providing for the mandatory nature of functional discounts under certain circumstances.
1976-03-16Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
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1976-03-22
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1976-03-22
Introduced in House
1976-03-22
Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.

A bill to reaffirm the national public policy and the purposes of Congress in enacting the Robinson-Patman Antiprice Discrimination Act entitled "An Act to amend section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies.

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