Title: Professional Boxing Safety Enhancement Act of 2018
Policy area: Sports and Recreation

Summary:
Professional Boxing Safety Enhancement Act of 2018
This bill amends the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to repeal a provision allowing a professional boxing match to meet an alternative requirement in effect under regulations of a boxing commission that provides protection of the health and safety of boxers and that is equivalent to requirements otherwise provided under such Act.
A boxer must provide with the application for a boxing license, or its renewal, an original or certified copy of the results of medical tests that: (1) were performed by a laboratory during the calendar year for which the license is being issued or no earlier than 30 days before the application is submitted, and (2) show that the boxer is not infected with the human immunodeficiency virus or the hepatitis virus.
The bill requires an ambulance and emergency medical personnel with appropriate resuscitation equipment (currently, one or the other) to be continuously present on site.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5964 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5964

    To amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to provide 
          additional safety standards for professional boxing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 2018

  Mr. Cartwright (for himself and Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to provide 
          additional safety standards for professional boxing.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Professional Boxing Safety 
Enhancement Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL SAFETY STANDARDS.

    Section 5 of the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 (15 U.S.C. 
6304) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ``or 
        an alternative requirement in effect under regulations of a 
        boxing commission that provides equivalent protection of the 
        health and safety of boxers'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
        (5) and (6), respectively; and
            (3) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
            ``(2) A boxer must provide with the application for a 
        license or for renewal of the license an original or certified 
        copy of the results of medical tests which--
                    ``(A) were performed by a laboratory during the 
                calendar year for which the license is being issued or 
                no earlier than 30 days before the date on which the 
                application is submitted;
                    ``(B) show that the boxer is not infected with the 
                human immunodeficiency virus; and
                    ``(C) show that the boxer is not infected with the 
                hepatitis virus.
            ``(3) An ambulance continuously present on site.
            ``(4) Emergency medical personnel with appropriate 
        resuscitation equipment continuously present on site.''.
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