1-1 By: Puente (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 1298
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the gloves used in a boxing contest, match, or
1-24 exhibition.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. The Texas Boxing and Wrestling Act (Article
1-27 8501-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section
1-28 6A to read as follows:
1-29 Sec. 6A. BOXING GLOVES. In any boxing contest, match, or
1-30 exhibition conducted in this state, the contestants shall wear
1-31 eight-ounce boxing gloves, unless the commissioner by rule requires
1-32 or permits the contestants to wear heavier gloves.
1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect December 1, 1993.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-39 * * * * *
1-40 Austin,
1-41 Texas
1-42 May 10, 1993
1-43 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-44 President of the Senate
1-45 Sir:
1-46 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
1-47 No. 1298, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-48 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-49 that it do pass and be printed.
1-50 Harris of
1-51 Dallas, Chairman
1-52 * * * * *
1-53 WITNESSES
1-54 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1298.