Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 19.420 · 8 active provisions
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Additional documentary material" means the additional documentary material filed with a Hart-Scott-Rodino form.(2) "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, op…
(1) A person filing a premerger notification shall file contemporaneously a complete electronic copy of the Hart-Scott-Rodino form with the attorney general if:(a) The person has its principal place of business in this state;(b) The person or a person it controls directly or indirectly had annual net sales in this stat…
(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section or RCW 19.420.040, the attorney general may not make public or disclose:(a) A Hart-Scott-Rodino form filed under RCW 19.420.020;(b) The additional documentary material filed or provided under RCW 19.420.020;(c) A Hart-Scott-Rodino form or additional documentary m…
(1) The attorney general may disclose a Hart-Scott-Rodino form and additional documentary material filed or provided under RCW 19.420.020 to the attorney general of another state that enacts the uniform antitrust premerger notification act or a substantively equivalent act. The other state's act must include confidenti…
The attorney general may seek imposition of a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 per day of noncompliance on a person that fails to comply with RCW 19.420.020 (1), (2), or (3). A civil penalty imposed under this section is subject to procedural requirements applicable to the attorney general, including the requirem…
This chapter may be known and cited as the uniform antitrust premerger notification act.
In applying and construing this uniform act, a court shall consider the promotion of uniformity of the law among jurisdictions that enact it.
This chapter applies only to a premerger notification filed on or after July 27, 2025.