Assembly Bill A5385

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires a weigh-in to take place the day of a combative sports event

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A5385 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1023, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8735
2021-2022: A6272

2023-A5385 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a weigh-in of all participants shall occur on the date of a combative sports event.

2023-A5385 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5385
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to requiring a
   weigh-in to take place the day of a combative sports event
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 1023 to read as follows:
   § 1023. WEIGH-INS. THE COMMISSION SHALL ESTABLISH PARAMETERS AND LIMI-
 TATIONS  ON THE WEIGH-IN OF ALL AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS. SUCH PARAME-
 TERS AND LIMITATIONS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, A REQUIREMENT
 THAT A WEIGH-IN OF ALL PARTICIPANTS SHALL OCCUR ON THE DATE OF A  COMBA-
 TIVE SPORTS EVENT.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10042-01-3

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