West Virginia House Bill 4696

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-08 - To House Finance
Pending: House Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to fund the West Virginia State Athletic Commission by implementing a 3% gate fee for all ticket and pay-per-view sales, live streaming right, video rights, sold for such contest and any rebroadcast rights from sanctioned events and requiring licensed promoters to provide the commission with a report showing the gross proceeds from all ticket and pay-per-view sales live streaming right, video rights, sold for such contest and any rebroadcast rights; to remove any mention of "exhibition" throughout the code; to amend titles of elected commissioners to avoid confusion regarding duplicative roles; to modify fees paid to event officials to more closely conform to industry demand; to amend code governing contestant weight classes to conform to the Unified Boxing Rules and the Association of Boxing Commissions; and to make clear that matches conducted by any university, college or high school may be exempt from this article if sanctioned by U.S.A. Boxing.

Relating generally to the West Virginia State Athletic Commission

Del. Kathie Crouse [R]	Del. Michael Hornby [R]	Del. David Adkins [R]	Del. Jordan Maynor [R]
Del. Kayla Young [D]	Del. Brandon Steele [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-08	House	To House Finance
2024-01-18	House	With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance
2024-01-15	House	To House Government Organization
2024-01-15	House	Introduced in House
2024-01-15	House	To Government Organization then Finance
2024-01-15	House	Filed for introduction

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29	5A	1	Amended Code	Citation Text
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Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4696&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4696%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4696
Amendment	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4696%20h%20go%20am%20_1.htm
Supplement	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=869308782