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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jan 19, 1999
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.
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Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] · D–NY
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S568)
Introduced in Senate
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