[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2354 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2354

   To amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to provide an 
                      additional safety provision.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 1997

  Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Manton, and Mr. Ensign) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in 
addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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 an 
                      additional safety provision.

    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 ``State Reciprocity in Professional 
Boxing Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. STATE RECIPROCITY IN PROFESSIONAL BOXING.

    Section 2 of the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
            ``(11) Malicious foul or infraction.--The term `malicious 
        foul or infraction' means any violent act or series of violent 
        acts in which a professional boxer intentionally causes, or 
        attempts to cause, bodily injury to an opposing boxer during 
        the course of a professional boxing match in a manner 
        inconsistent with the generally accepted methods of competition 
        in a boxing match, as determined by guidelines set forth by the 
        Association of State Boxing Commissions. A malicious foul or 
        infraction includes the following acts:
                    ``(A) Headbutting.
                    ``(B) Kicking.
                    ``(C) Striking an opponent after a round has ended.
                    ``(D) Biting an opponent's body or extremities.
                    ``(E) Striking an opponent on an impermissible part 
                of the opponent's body.''.

SEC. 3. PURPOSES.

    Section 2 of the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (2) and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) to ensure that no boxer is permitted to fight in any 
        State while under suspension by any State boxing commission.''.

SEC. 4. MALICIOUS FOUL OR INFRACTION.

    Section 7(a)(2) of the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``or'';
            (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) the commission of a malicious foul or 
                infraction.''.
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