A bill to amend the antitrust laws to provide that the refusal of nonprofit blood banks and of hospitals and physicians to obtain blood and blood plasma from other blood banks shall not be deemed to be acts in restraint of trade, and for other purposes.

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States that it shall not be deemed an act in restraint of trade for a nonprofit blood bank, nonprofit reservoir of human organs, or any hospital or physician to refuse, or to join with others in refusing, to obtain blood or blood plasma, tissue, or organs from other blood banks, or reservoirs, nor shall the interstate shipment of such things be considered to be trade or commerce in commodities.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 5 April 1978

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