United States · Bill · S
S. 1968 (97th)
International Joint Venture Act of 1981
Introduced
15 December 1981
Last action
15 December 1981 · Introduced
Status
Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary.
Sponsors
Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT], Rep. Kasten, Robert W., Jr. [R-WI-9], Rep. Baucus, Max [D-MT-1], Sen. Percy, Charles H. [R-IL], Sen. Burdick, Quentin N. [D-ND]
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
10 August 2026
Summary
International Joint Venture Act of 1981 - Declares that certain provisions of the Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act do not prohibit an individual or organization of the United States from participating in a joint venture which: (1) is composed of only such U.S. person and one or more foreign persons; (2) does not engage in any line of commerce in the United States in which such foreign person is already engaged; (3) is terminable by either party no later than ten years after it is formed; (4) provides for the exchange of technology; and (5) provides access to raw materials or to distribution marketing, or manufacturing facilities.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
15 December 1981
Introduced
Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary.
Source: IntroReferral
15 December 1981
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
Source: IntroReferral
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
1 official file
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 15 December 1981
Sponsors
- Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · R · Sponsor
- Rep. Kasten, Robert W., Jr. [R-WI-9] · R · Sponsor
- Rep. Baucus, Max [D-MT-1] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Percy, Charles H. [R-IL] · R · Cosponsor
- Sen. Burdick, Quentin N. [D-ND] · D · Cosponsor
- · ssju00 · Standing
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1968
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/97/s/1968
- us · 97-s-1968 · source updated 10 August 2026