Professional Boxing Safety Enhancement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5964
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2018-05-24
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Athletes

Digestive and metabolic diseases

Emergency medical services and trauma care

HIV/AIDS

Health personnel

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Licensing and registrations

Medical tests and diagnostic methods

Professional sports

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2018-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-05-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Professional Boxing Safety Enhancement Act of 2018</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The bill requires an ambulance and emergency medical personnel with appropriate resuscitation equipment (currently, one or the other) to be continuously present on site.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5964 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 A BILL To amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to provide additional safety standards for professional boxing.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Professional Boxing Safety Enhancement Act of 2018 . 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. .