REPRESENTATIVES Seitz, Grendell, Damschroder, Wolpert, Hartnett, Willamowski, Webster, Britton, Lendrum, Boccieri, Womer Benjamin, Latta, DePiero, Faber, Perry

To amend sections 1331.08 and 1331.12 of the Revised

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Code to provide a four-year statute of limitation

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on any civil or criminal action or proceeding

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under the Antitrust Law and to increase the amount

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of damages in a civil action under that law.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1.  That sections 1331.08 and 1331.12 of the Revised	6
Code be amended to read as follows:	7

Sec. 1331.08.  In addition to the civil and criminal	8
penalties provided in sections 1331.01 to 1331.14 of the Revised	9
Code, the person injured in histhe person's business or property	10
by another person by reason of anything forbidden or declared to	11
be unlawful in suchthose sections, may sue therefor in any court	12
having jurisdiction and venue thereof, without respect to the	13
amount in controversy, and recover towfoldtreble the damages	14
sustained by himthe person and histhe person's costs of suit.	15
When it appears to the court, before which a proceeding under such	16
those sections is pending, that the ends of justice require other	17
parties to be brought before suchthe court, the court may cause	18
them to be made parties defendant and summoned, whether or not	19
they reside in the county where suchthe action is pending.	20

Sec. 1331.12.  (A) In any action or proceeding in quo	21
warranto, in injunction, or otherwise brought by the attorney	22
general or a prosecuting attorney under sections 1331.01 to	23
1331.14 of the Revised Code, all persons,that are party to or	24
participating in the trust or conspiracy against trade violative	25
of suchthose sections, may be made parties defendant and	26
summoned, whether or not they reside in the county wherein which	27
the action or proceeding is instituted. Actions or proceedings in	28
quo warranto and in injunction may be instituted simultaneously,	29
or while one or another of them is pending, such actions or	30
proceedings being started in the proper court as provided in	31
section 1331.11 of the Revised Code, and no action or proceeding	32
in injunction is a bar to aan action or proceeding in quo	33
warranto, nor is aan action or proceeding in quo warranto a bar	34
to one instituted to restrain and enjoin.	35

No statute of limitation shall prevent or be a bar to any	36
action for the recovery of damages that is brought on behalf of	37
the state or a political subdivision of the state or brought by	38
the state in a parens patriae capacity for the benefit of	39
consumers, to any proceeding in quo warranto or in injunction, or	40
to any other action brought by the attorney general or a	41
prosecuting attorney for any violation of sections 1331.01 to	42
1331.14 of the Revised Code.	43

(B) A cause ofAny civil or criminal action or proceeding for	44
anya violation of sections 1331.01 to 1331.14 of the Revised	45
Code, other than one upon which an action iswas brought by the	46
attorney general or a prosecuting attorney, and other than one	47
upon which action was brought in any court by any person not later	48
than forty-five days after the effective date of thisthe current	49
amendment, shall be forever barred unless commenced within four	50
years after the cause of action accrued.	51

Section 2.  That existing sections 1331.08 and 1331.12 of the	52
Revised Code are hereby repealed.	53