By:  Puente                                           H.B. No. 1298
       73R1495 LJD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the gloves used in a boxing contest, match, or
    1-3  exhibition.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The Texas Boxing and Wrestling Act (Article
    1-6  8501-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section
    1-7  6A to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 6A.  BOXING GLOVES.  In any boxing contest, match, or
    1-9  exhibition conducted in this state, the contestants shall wear
   1-10  eight-ounce boxing gloves, unless the commissioner by rule requires
   1-11  or permits the contestants to wear heavier gloves.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect December 1, 1993.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.