[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2351 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2351

    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 15, 2015

 Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, and 
 Mr. Veasey) 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 2015''.

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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