Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits unreasonable restraint of trade and the monopolization of trade and commerce in California.

Highlights:

• Prohibits any person from taking any action to unreasonably restrain trade or to monopolize or monopsonize any part of trade or commerce (Sec. 2).

• Prohibits anticompetitive effects in one market from being offset by purported benefits in a separate market (Sec. 2).

• Exempts small businesses from these provisions (Sec. 2).

• Requires courts to liberally interpret California’s antitrust laws to best promote free and fair competition (Sec. 3).

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