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2018 Regular Session

Senate Bill 425

AN ACT CONCERNING LED LIGHT POLLUTION IN THE STATE.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate on April 5, 2018. The 2018 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To establish a preference for the purchase of yellow-tinted LED lights whenever state funds are used for the purchase of LED lights in order to minimize the health effects and glare from white LED lighting and to authorize municipalities to develop their own ordinances concerning light pollution.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

Ted Kennedy Jr.

In the House of Representatives

    1 co-sponsor

    Dorinda Borer

    Its course

    March 7 to April 5, 2018, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action9 actions on 6 days

    In the SenateMar 7 to Apr 5 · stopped29 days

    Environment CommitteeMar 7 to Mar 2215 days

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the Senate Mar 7 – Mar 22

    1. Introduced and sent to Environment Committee
    2. Heard in Environment Committee
    3. Environment Committee recommended a substitute for it
    All 9 actions, as published