[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 143 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 143

To amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to standardize the 
     physical examinations that each boxer must take prior to each 
professional boxing match and to require a brain CAT scan every 2 years 
             as a requirement for the licensing of a boxer.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 19, 1999

 Mr. Moynihan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to standardize the 
     physical examinations that each boxer must take prior to each 
professional boxing match and to require a brain CAT scan every 2 years 
             as a requirement for the licensing of a boxer.

    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 Act 
Amendments of 1999''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE PROFESSIONAL BOXING SAFETY ACT OF 1996.

    (a) Standardized Physical Examinations.--Section 5(1) of the 
Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 (15 U.S.C. 6304(1)) is amended 
by inserting after ``examination'' the following: ``, based on 
guidelines endorsed by the American Medical Association, including a 
circulo-respiratory check and a neurological examination,''.
    (b) CAT Scans.--Section 6(b)(2) of the Professional Boxing Safety 
Act of 1996 (15 U.S.C. 6305(b)(2)) is amended by inserting before the 
period the following: ``and, with respect to such renewal, present 
proof from a physician that such boxer has taken a computerized axial 
tomography (CAT) scan within the 30-day period preceding that date on 
which the renewal application is submitted and that no brain damage 
from boxing has been detected''.
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