Bill Text: PA HB817 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for the Amateur Boxing Assistance Account.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-10 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB817 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB817-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 924
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 817 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY BUXTON, THOMAS, BRENNAN, CARROLL, GIBBONS, HARKINS, M. KELLER, READSHAW, ROEBUCK, SABATINA, SIPTROTH AND STURLA, MARCH 10, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 10, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 5 (Athletics and Sports) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, providing for the Amateur Boxing
Assistance Account.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 5 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 1115. Amateur Boxing Assistance Account.
Fifty cents from each ticket sold for a professional boxing
contest or exhibition shall be paid into the Amateur Boxing
Assistance Account, which shall be a special restricted receipt
account within the General Fund. The account shall be used only
for the purpose of providing financial assistance to any
organization that promotes amateur boxing.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.