{"id":316714,"date":"2026-05-15T05:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316714\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:15:22","slug":"antitrust-law-expansion-passes-key-california-assembly-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316714\/","title":{"rendered":"Antitrust Law Expansion Passes Key California Assembly Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major expansion of California\u2019s antitrust laws advanced in the state legislature Thursday as Gov. Gavin Newsom also proposed ramping up funding to crack down on anticompetitive business practices.<\/p>\n<p>The bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1776\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1776<\/a>) would extend the state\u2019s Cartwright Act to cover conduct by individual companies, a shift from the law\u2019s current focus on two or more companies. It heads next to a vote of the full Assembly sometime before the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced the measure on a party-line vote, with Democrats in support, as part of a whirlwind hearing on hundreds of pieces &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major expansion of California\u2019s antitrust laws advanced in the state legislature Thursday as Gov. Gavin Newsom also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132388,7,9,8,132389],"class_list":["post-316714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-business-lobbying","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-state-antitrust-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}