HB617 Alabama 2019 Session

Under existing law, the Alabama Athletic Commission is responsible for regulating boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts pursuant to the Alabama Boxing, Wrestling, and Mixed Martial Arts Act

This bill would define the term bare knuckle boxing

This bill would revise the membership of the medical advisory panel to provide for two licensed sports medicine physicians

This bill would authorize the Alabama Athletic Commission to regulate professional bare knuckle boxing in the same manner as boxing and mixed martial arts

This bill would provide further for the drug testing of competitors

This bill would authorize the commission to issue a temporary license to any applicant who applies for a license less than 30 days before participating in a scheduled, sanctioned event

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama 1901 prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

The purpose or effect of this general law would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621

If this bill is not enacted by a 2/3 vote, it will not become effective with regard to a local entity unless approved by the local entity or until, and only as long as, the Legislature appropriates funds or provides for a local source of revenue

To amend Sections 41-9-1021, 41-9-1023, 41-9-1024, 41-9-1027, 41-9-1028, 41-9-1029, 41-9-1030, 41-9-1031, 41-9-1032, 41-9-1033, 41-9-1034, 41-9-1035, 41-9-1036, 41-9-1037, and 41-9-1038 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Alabama Boxing, Wrestling, and Mixed Martial Arts Act and the Alabama Athletic Commission; to define the term professional bare knuckle boxing; to revise the membership of the medical advisory panel; to authorize the Alabama Athletic Commission to regulate professional bare knuckle boxing in the same manner as boxing and mixed martial arts; to provide further for the drug testing of competitors; to authorize the commission to issue a temporary license to any applicant who applies for a license less than 30 days before participating in a scheduled, sanctioned event; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds.