HCONRES 444
107th Congress
House
Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Players Association and the National…
Official title: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Playe… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Players Association and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to enter into a contract to continue to play professional baseball games without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any coercive conduct that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games.
Labor and Employment
AthletesBaseballCollective bargainingCollective bargaining agreements
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3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
Oct 3, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Jul 17, 2002
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Jul 17, 2002
Introduced in House
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Plain-English summary
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should immediately: (1) offer its services to the Major League Baseball Players Association and the team owners who are members of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to resolve labor contract disputes over entering into a collective bargaining agreement; and (2) use its best efforts to bring the parties to agree to such contract without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any other coercion that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games.
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- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF
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Cosponsors
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Con. Res. 444: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Players Association and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to enter into a contract to continue to play professional baseball games without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any coercive conduct that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games.. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-444/
"H. Con. Res. 444: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Players Association and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to enter into a contract to continue to play professional baseball games without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any coercive conduct that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games.." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-444/.
H. Con. Res. 444, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-444/.
[H. Con. Res. 444: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Players Association and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to enter into a contract to continue to play professional baseball games without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any coercive conduct that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games.](https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HCONRES-444/)