A bill to promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees, increasing antitrust enforcement resources, and improving the information provided to antitrust enforcers.
Merger Enforcement Improvement Act This bill modifies antitrust enforcement requirements regarding mergers (acquisitions by one corporation of the voting securities or assets of another). Specifically, the bill: adjusts premerger notification filing fees; requires certain filers to report to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or to the relevant Assistant Attorney General on information that allows the government to assess the competitive impact of a merger; requires the FTC to study overlapping ownership or control by investors in certain markets; and requires the Government Accountability Office to assess the success of certain merger remedies and the impact of mergers and acquisitions on wages, employment, innovation, and new business formation.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Commerce
Business investment and capitalBusiness recordsCivil actions and liabilityCompetition and antitrustCongressional oversightCorporate finance and managementEconomic performance and conditionsFederal Trade Commission (FTC)Financial services and investmentsGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsSecuritiesUnemploymentUser charges and feesWages and earnings
A bill to promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees, increasing antitrust enforcement resources, and improving the information provided to antitrust enforcers.
USA115th CongressS-1811| Senate
| Updated: 9/14/2017
Merger Enforcement Improvement Act This bill modifies antitrust enforcement requirements regarding mergers (acquisitions by one corporation of the voting securities or assets of another). Specifically, the bill: adjusts premerger notification filing fees; requires certain filers to report to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or to the relevant Assistant Attorney General on information that allows the government to assess the competitive impact of a merger; requires the FTC to study overlapping ownership or control by investors in certain markets; and requires the Government Accountability Office to assess the success of certain merger remedies and the impact of mergers and acquisitions on wages, employment, innovation, and new business formation.
Business investment and capitalBusiness recordsCivil actions and liabilityCompetition and antitrustCongressional oversightCorporate finance and managementEconomic performance and conditionsFederal Trade Commission (FTC)Financial services and investmentsGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsSecuritiesUnemploymentUser charges and feesWages and earnings