M&A Disclosure Bill to Get Another Chance: California Brief

State Sen. Tom Umberg (right) with US Sen. Adam Schiff

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California’s attorney general would get advance notice of more mergers and acquisitions under a measure that the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to revive next year.

It’s the latest proposal by state lawmakers to extend California’s enforcement of antitrust laws. The bill would require companies that have to give federal regulators notice of deals under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act to submit the same disclosures to the state if they are headquartered in California or sell a certain amount of products or services there.

The measure passed the Senate in June by a vote of 36-1 but stalled in ...