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.
Professional Boxing Safety Act Amendments of 1999 - Amends the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to: (1) revise professional boxing safety requirements to provide for the physical examination that each boxer must take prior to each boxing match to be based on guidelines endorsed by the American Medical Association and to include a circulo-respiratory check and a neurological examination; and (2) require each professional boxer, with respect to the renewal of his or her identification card, to present proof from a physician that such boxer has taken a computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan and that no brain damage from boxing has been detected.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S568)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
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