“A bill to exempt intercollegiate athletic conferences and interstate intercollegiate athletic associations from the antitrust laws.”
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This section establishes an exemption from the antitrust laws for intercollegiate athletic conferences and interstate intercollegiate athletic associations. An intercollegiate athletic conference is an organization or association with two or more institutions of higher education (as defined in the Higher Education Act of 1965) as members that arranges championships and sets rules for intercollegiate athletic competition, or any such institution competing against another; an interstate intercollegiate athletic association is a U.S. not-for-profit entity composed of two or more institutions or conferences in different states that sponsors or arranges such competitions and sets related rules and standards (excluding those affiliated with professional athletics). (Thus, entities such as the NCAA are shielded from antitrust liability, including under section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act for unfair methods of competition.)