Bill Text: HI HB812 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Street Lights; Energy Efficiency ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-11 - The committee(s) on TRN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB812 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-HB812-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	812
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to lighting.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 201-8.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the title and subsections (a) through (e) to read as follows:

     "[[]§201‑8.5[]]  Night sky protection strategy[.]; energy efficient lighting.  (a)  [Beginning July 1, 2014, all] All state agencies shall comply with energy efficient shielded lighting fixture requirements under this section, whereby, except as specified otherwise in subsections (c) through (f), every new outdoor lamp light fixture emitting more than three thousand lumens shall be required to be energy efficient, fully shielded, and to have a correlated color temperature of four thousand Kelvin or less; provided that the impact of artificial light on shoreline and ocean waters shall be subject to compliance with section 205A‑71.  A lighting fixture is considered to be fully shielded when the lighting fixture is shielded in [such] a manner that all light rays emitted by the fixture, either directly from the lamp, or indirectly from the fixture, are projected below a horizontal plane running through the lowest point of the fixture.  A lighting fixture is considered to be energy efficient when the electricity usage of the lighting fixture is less than seventy per cent of a non-adaptive low-pressure sodium lighting fixture emitting the same number of lumens.

     (b)  No new mercury vapor lamps shall be sold or installed after July 1, 2014.  No new low-pressure sodium lamps shall be sold or installed after July 1, 2017.

     (c)  As applicable, retrofit work or replacement of existing lighting fixtures shall:

     (1)  Limit the rated correlated color temperature of emitted light (lamp, fixture, and filter if used) to less than or equal to four thousand Kelvin, except in the case of outdoor athletic facilities as described in subsection (d);

     (2)  Not be subject to the shielding requirement for lamp-by-lamp replacement work; [and]

     (3)  Require one hundred per cent fully shielded lighting fixtures be installed if more than fifty per cent of existing nonconforming lighting fixtures need to be replaced[.]; and

     (4)  Require energy efficient lighting fixtures be installed.

     (d)  For outdoor athletic facilities, energy efficient fully shielded lighting fixtures with correlated color temperatures less than or equal to four thousand Kelvin are preferred, but not required.  Where fully shielded lighting fixtures are not used, acceptable luminaries shall include light fixtures that are:

     (1)  Equipped with internal, external, or internal and external glare control louvers and are installed so as to limit direct up-light to less than five per cent of the total lumens exiting from the installed fixtures and minimize offsite light trespass; and

     (2)  Installed and maintained with minimum aiming angles of twenty-five degrees downward from the horizontal; provided that the aiming angle shall be measured from the axis of the luminaire maximum beam candlepower, as certified by an independent testing agency.

     (e)  [Fully] Energy efficient fully shielded replacement lighting fixtures for state managed roadways and highways shall be installed on a case-by-case basis, subject to the availability of capital improvement project funding and compliance with applicable federal, state, or county design standards or guidelines.  Where energy efficient fully shielded fixtures are not used, acceptable luminaires shall be energy efficient partially shielded lights that emit no more than five per cent of their light above the horizontal plane, as certified by an independent testing agency."

     SECTION 2.  Beginning July 1, 2015, and annually thereafter, not less than five per cent of all lighting fixtures for state managed roadways and highways, as measured on July 1, 2015, shall be retrofitted with energy efficient fully shielded lighting fixtures; provided that where energy efficient fully shielded fixtures are not permitted or not practicable, acceptable luminaires shall be energy efficient partially shielded lights that emit no more than five per cent of their light above the horizontal plane, as certified by an independent testing agency.

     SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2015-2016 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2016-2017 for the retrofitting of state managed roadways and highways lighting fixtures.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of transportation for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Street Lights; Energy Efficiency

 

Description:

Requires that new and retrofitted street lights on state highways and roads be energy efficient.  Requires that a portion of existing street lights be retrofitted with energy efficient lighting fixtures.  Appropriates moneys.

 

 

 

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