Bill Text: CA SB1456 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: State Athletic Commission: Advisory Committee on Medical and Safety Standards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-24 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. [SB1456 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1456-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1456
| Introduced by Senator Ashby |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 18645 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1456, as introduced, Ashby.
State Athletic Commission: Advisory Committee on Medical and Safety Standards.
Existing law, the State Athletic Commission Act, grants the State Athletic Commission jurisdiction over all professional and amateur boxing, professional and amateur kickboxing, all forms and combinations of forms of full contact martial arts contests, including mixed martial arts, and matches or exhibitions conducted, held, or given within this state. Existing law establishes the Advisory Committee on Medical and Safety Standards within the commission and requires the committee to consist of 6 licensed physicians and surgeons appointed by the commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to call meetings at such times and places as it deems appropriate for the purpose of studying and recommending medical and safety standards for the conduct of boxing, wrestling, and martial arts contests.
This bill would require the committee to include at
least one licensed physician and surgeon certified in neurology by a specialty board that is a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 18645 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:18645.
(a) There is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the State Athletic Commission an Advisory Committee on Medical and Safety Standards.(b) The committee shall consist of six licensed physicians and surgeons appointed by the commission. commission, including at least one licensed physician and surgeon certified in neurology by a specialty board that is a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties. The commission may call meetings of those physicians and surgeons at such times and places as it deems appropriate for the purpose of studying and recommending
medical and safety standards for the conduct of boxing, wrestling, and martial arts contests.
(c) It shall require a majority vote of the commission to appoint a person to the committee. Each appointment shall be at the pleasure of the commission for a term not to exceed four years.
(d) A majority of the appointed members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the purposes of meeting.
