[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3851 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3851

   To clarify the relationship of the policies of sports leagues or 
associations and provisions of State or local law regarding the use of 
         performance-enhancing drugs in interstate competition.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 28, 2010

  Mr. Dorgan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
   To clarify the relationship of the policies of sports leagues or 
associations and provisions of State or local law regarding the use of 
         performance-enhancing drugs in interstate competition.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Clean Sports Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. RELATIONSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE POLICIES TO STATE OR LOCAL 
              LAW.

    (a) Preemption.--
            (1) In general.--If a covered sports league or association 
        has in effect policies designed to detect and prevent the use 
        of steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs by 
        participants in such covered sports league or association, such 
        policies shall preempt any provision of a civil law of a State 
        or political subdivision of a State that is less stringent than 
        such policies.
            (2) Rule of construction.--For purposes of this subsection, 
        a provision of civil law of a State or political subdivision of 
        a State is not less stringent than a policy of a covered sports 
        league or association relating to the use of steroids or other 
        performance-enhancing drugs if the requirements or prohibitions 
        in such provision are more likely to detect and prevent the use 
        of steroids or other performance enhancing drugs by 
        participants in events of such covered sports league or 
        association than the requirements or prohibitions in such 
        policy.
    (b) Definition.--As used in this section, the term ``covered sports 
league or association'' means Major League Baseball, Minor League 
Baseball, the National Football League, the Arena Football League, the 
National Basketball Association, the Women's National Basketball 
Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, and any 
successor organization to those organizations.
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