Imposes a two year moratorium on the conduct of mixed martial arts events in the state and requires the commissioner of health to conduct a comprehensive health study to determine the dangers of mixed martial arts.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4724--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 19, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to impose a two year moratorium on the conduct of mixed martial
arts events and amateur mixed martial arts competition events in the
state and to require the commissioner of the department of health to
conduct a comprehensive health study to determine the dangers of mixed
martial arts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contra-
2 ry, public and for-profit mixed martial arts competition events and
3 amateur mixed martial arts competition events shall not be conducted in
4 the state of New York for a period of two years from the effective date
5 of this act.
6 § 2. The commissioner of the department of health is authorized and
7 directed to conduct a comprehensive health study to determine the
8 dangers to participants of engaging in mixed martial arts competition
9 events. Such study shall be completed within eighteen months of the
10 effective date of this act.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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