[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1240 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1240

To amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to require that the 
         scores of each judge be made public after each round.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 1999

Mr. Traficant 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 require that the 
         scores of each judge be made public after each round.

    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 Integrity Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNOUNCEMENT OF SCORES IN PROFESSIONAL BOXING MATCHES.

    The Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 (15 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating section 15 as 16; and
            (2) by inserting after section 14 the following new 
        section:

``SEC. 15. SCORING.

    ``No person may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a 
professional boxing match held in a State that does not require that 
the score of each judge be made public at the end of each round by 
loudspeaker, scoreboard, or equivalent means.''.

SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY.

    Section 16 of the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 (15 U.S.C. 
6301 et seq.), as redesignated by section 2(1) of this Act, is amended 
by adding after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Section 15 shall apply to any professional boxing 
        match held after the expiration of the 120-day period beginning 
        on the date of the enactment of the Professional Boxing 
        Integrity Act.''.
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