YourVoice.Now Summary
Workers & JobsTransparency & AccountabilityCivil LibertiesCorporate BenefitsCriminal Justice & Due ProcessWould set a $200-per-round pay floor for pro boxers, require yearly brain scans, and let leagues run their own belts.
Workers & Jobs
Promoters and leagues would have to pay each boxer at least $200 for every round fought. Federal law sets no pay floor today.
Match insurance would need $50,000 of medical coverage and $15,000 in accidental death coverage. The promoter or league pays the premium, not the boxer.
A doctor would have to run a set list of tests in person before clearing a boxer. It includes a brain scan or nerve exam, a heart rhythm test, and a dilated eye exam.
Matches run by a unified boxing league would double today's rule of one ambulance and one ringside doctor. Two years after the bill becomes law, those doctors would also need approved ringside training.
A league contract would have to offer a boxer at least one match every six months. If it does not, the boxer is still paid at least ten times the per-round minimum, so $2,000 or more.
No contract between a boxer and a unified boxing league could run longer than six years. In its last 30 days, the boxer could talk to other leagues and promoters.
The league would pay for the insurance, but the boxer would owe the deductible on a claim. It is the one required cost the bill puts on the boxer.
Transparency & Accountability
A league could not bill a boxer for a ranking, a title fight, or a belt. It could still ask the boxer to repay real costs it fronted, like travel or medical bills.
Leagues would have to bar anyone close to a fighter from betting on that match, or from passing inside tips to a bettor. That reaches adults living in the boxer's home.
Once a year a league would have to post what substances it tested for and every penalty it gave a boxer. The list would be free for anyone to read.
A new league would file its home state, business address, and website with the Federal Trade Commission, which posts them publicly. It could skip that filing by putting the same details on a free public website.
Civil Liberties
State boxing commissions would have to test fighters at every title match and run random tests at other matches. Tests would screen for whatever the state bans, or for the world anti-doping list.
A boxer signing with a league would have to agree to testing at any time, with no warning, for the length of the contract. An outside company runs the tests and reports positive results.
The bill's list of required exams includes a pregnancy test for female fighters, good for 14 days. A doctor must state in writing that nothing found blocks the boxer from competing safely.
Corporate Benefits
A league that signs its own boxers could rank them and award its own titles. It would not need the outside groups that hand out belts today, and meeting the bill's safety rules would count as following the whole law.
Each group could name only one champion per weight class instead of several. An interim belt would be allowed only when a champion is hurt, ill, or cannot defend the title.
Criminal Justice & Due Process
A league officer or employee who knowingly breaks the new safety and contract rules could get up to a year in jail, a fine up to $20,000, or both. Pushing someone else to break them counts the same.
More about this bill
Professional boxers would get a federal pay floor of at least $200 for each round they fight. Injury insurance would have to cover at least $50,000 in medical bills. It would also pay $15,000 if a boxer dies from the match. The promoter or the league pays for that policy, not the boxer. These rules would apply to matches held 30 days after the bill becomes law. Most people would see no change, since the bill only touches the boxing business. Safety testing would tighten across the sport. Boxers would need yearly brain, heart, and eye exams before they fight. Those 40 and older would add a stress test and yearly brain scans. Drug tests would be required at title fights, and random at other matches. Female boxers would need a pregnancy test within 14 days of a match. A boxer knocked out in a league match would need a new brain check before fighting again. The bill would also create a new kind of boxing league, called a unified boxing organization. A league could sign boxers and hand out its own title belts, with no outside group. In return, it would face extra rules. Each match would need two ambulances and two ringside doctors. An outside company would run the drug testing, and each boxer would get a medical coordinator. League deals could not run past six years. Leagues could not charge boxers fees for rankings or title shots. League officers who knowingly break these rules could face up to a year in jail and a $20,000 fine.
Congressional Summary
This bill authorizes the establishment of private-sector Unified Boxing Organizations (UBOs) and otherwise expands the regulatory framework for professional boxing. (See CRS Report IF12982 for an overview of the federal regulation of professional boxing in the United States.)Under the bill, UBOs may organize matches involving boxers contracted with the UBO and must comply with other regulations with respect to such matches (e.g., conduct matches under the authority of a state boxing commission). UBOs also operate alongside existing professional boxing organizations (e.g., World Boxing Council (WBC)).UBOs must meet certain additional requirements, for examplethe UBO must implement an anti-doping program that includes drug testing in advance of matches,boxers age 40 or older must receive supplemental physical examinations,each match must have at least two ambulances on site, andboxers must have access to equipment and facilities that are operated by the UBO for training and rehabilitation.The bill also expands the required health insurance coverage and minimum pay for all professional boxers.Further, the bill requires state boxing commissions to establish procedures to ensure that drug tests are administered for title matches and at random for all other matches.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- Action Date
- 2026-03-25
- Date Added
- 2026-03-30
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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