HB 1122 Summary

• Establishes the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission as a separate and distinct agency independent from the State Department of Health, effective November 1, 2025

• Expands Commission jurisdiction to regulate licensing of amateur and professional combative sports practitioners including boxers, mixed martial artists, kickboxers, referees, judges, and related personnel

• Requires Commission to halt unlicensed promotion of professional combative sports events and seek administrative, criminal, and civil penalties against those promoting unsanctioned events

• Makes it unlawful to promote or participate in professional or amateur combative sports events or amateur mixed martial arts events unless sanctioned by the Commission

• Removes exceptions allowing HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C testing waivers before license issuance, requiring all applicants to submit certified test results within 365 days prior to application unless participants, opponents, ring officials, and ringside physicians agree in writing to waive the testing requirement