Bill Text: IL HB2363 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Creates the Clean Lighting Act. Prohibits offering for final sale, selling at final sale, or distributing as a new manufactured product (i) a screw or bayonet base compact fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2024 and (ii) a pin-base compact fluorescent lamp or a linear fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2025. Exempts specified lamps from the Act. Contains enforcement provisions. Allows the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt rules to implement and enforce the Act. Contains a severability provision. Contains other provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-01 - Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Ellman [HB2363 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2363-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
adding Section 21.8 as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/21.8 new)
Sec. 21.8. Fluorescent lamp bans.
(a) The General Assembly finds that:
(1) Mercury is a persistent and toxic pollutant that
bioaccumulates in the environment and poses a serious
threat to humans, particularly young children, and
wildlife.
(2) Human exposure to mercury can result in nervous
system, kidney, and liver damage and impaired childhood
development.
(3) Removal of mercury and mercury-containing products
from the waste stream prior to combustion or disposal is
an effective way to reduce mercury pollution.
(4) All fluorescent lamps contain mercury and can
create an immediate public health and environmental hazard
when they accidentally break during installation, use,
transportation, storage, recycling, or disposal.
(5) Light-emitting diode (LED) replacements for

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fluorescent lamps do not contain any mercury.
(b) In this Section:
"Compact fluorescent lamp" means a compact low-pressure,
mercury-containing, electric-discharge light source in which a
fluorescent coating transforms some of the ultraviolet energy
generated by the mercury discharge into visible light, and
includes all of the following characteristics:
(1) One base (end cap) of any type, including, but not
limited to, screw, bayonet, 2 pins, and 4 pins.
(2) Integrally ballasted or non-integrally ballasted.
(3) Light emission between a correlated color
temperature of 1700K and 24000K and a Delta u, v of +0.024
and -0.024 in the International Commission on Illumination
(CIE) Uniform Color Space (CAM02-UCS).
(4) All tube diameters and all tube lengths.
(5) All lamp sizes and shapes for directional and
nondirectional installations, including, but not limited
to, PL, spiral, twin tube, triple twin, 2D, U-bend, and
circular.
"Linear fluorescent lamp" means a low-pressure,
mercury-containing, electric-discharge light source in which a
fluorescent coating transforms some of the ultraviolet energy
generated by the mercury discharge into visible light, and
includes all of the following characteristics:
(1) Two bases (end caps) of any type, including, but
not limited to, single-pin, two-pin, and recessed double

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contact.
(2) Light emission between a correlated color
temperature of 1700K and 24000K and a Delta u, v of +0.024
and -0.024 in the International Commission on Illumination
(CIE) Uniform Color Space (CAM02-UCS).
(3) All tube diameters, including, but not limited to,
T5, T8, T10, and T12.
(4) All tube lengths from 0.5 to 8.0 feet, inclusive.
(5) All lamp shapes, including, but not limited to,
linear, U-bend, and circular.
"Sunlamp product" has the meaning given in 21 CFR
1040.20(b)(9).
(c) Beginning January 1, 2026, no person shall sell, offer
to sell, or distribute in the State as a new manufactured
product a screw-base or bayonet-base type compact fluorescent
lamp.
(d) beginning January 1, 2027, no person shall sell, offer
to sell, or distribute in the State as a new manufactured
product a pin-base type compact fluorescent lamp or a linear
fluorescent lamp.
(e) The prohibitions in this Section do not apply to the
following:
(1) A lamp designed and marketed exclusively for image
capture and projection, including:
(A) photocopying;
(B) printing, directly or in preprocessing;

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(C) lithography;
(D) film or video projection; or
(E) holography.
(2) A lamp that has a high proportion of ultraviolet
light emission and is one of the following:
(A) a lamp with high ultraviolet content that has
ultraviolet power greater than 2 milliwatts per
kilolumen (mW/klm);
(B) a lamp for germicidal use, such as the
destruction of DNA, that emits a peak radiation of
approximately 253.7 nanometers;
(C) a lamp designed and marketed exclusively for
disinfection or fly trapping from which either the
radiation power emitted between 250 and 315 nanometers
represents at least 5% of, or the radiation power
emitted between 315 and 400 nanometers represents at
least 20% of, the total radiation power emitted
between 250 and 800 nanometers;
(D) a lamp designed and marketed exclusively for
the generation of ozone where the primary purpose is
to emit radiation at approximately 185.1 nanometers;
(E) a lamp designed and marketed exclusively for
coral zooxanthellae symbiosis from which the radiation
power emitted between 400 and 480 nanometers
represents at least 40% of the total radiation power
emitted between 250 and 800 nanometers; and

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(F) a lamp designed and marketed exclusively for
use in a sunlamp product.
(3) A lamp designed and marketed exclusively for use
in medical or veterinary diagnosis or treatment or in a
medical device.
(4) A lamp designed and marketed exclusively for use
in the manufacturing or quality control of pharmaceutical
products.
(5) A lamp designed and marketed exclusively for
spectroscopy and photometric applications, such as
UV-visible spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, atomic
absorption spectroscopy, nondispersive infrared (NDIR)
spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR)
spectroscopy, medical analysis, ellipsometry, layer
thickness measurement, process monitoring, or
environmental monitoring.
(6) A lamp used by academic and research institutions
for conducting research projects and experiments.
(7) A compact fluorescent lamp used to replace a lamp
in motor vehicles manufactured on or before January 1,
2020.
(8) A compact fluorescent lamp or linear fluorescent
lamp sold or offered for sale on or before January 1, 2028,
if there is no LED alternative available.
(f) Nothing in this Section shall be interpreted to limit
the ability of a utility to offer energy efficient lighting,

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