House File 561 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  SCHICKEL


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act prohibiting the use of high intensity discharge headlamps
  2    on motor vehicles and providing a penalty.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1533YH 82
  5 dea/es/88

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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  321.407  HIGH INTENSITY DISCHARGE
  1  2 HEADLAMPS PROHIBITED.
  1  3    1.  A person shall not operate a motor vehicle equipped
  1  4 with high intensity discharge headlamps.  For purposes of this
  1  5 section, "high intensity discharge headlamps" are headlamps
  1  6 that employ xenon gas to amplify light generated through an
  1  7 arc discharge.
  1  8    2.  A person convicted of a violation of this section is
  1  9 guilty of a simple misdemeanor punishable as a scheduled
  1 10 violation under section 805.8A, subsection 3, paragraph "d".
  1 11    Sec. 2.  Section 805.8A, subsection 3, paragraph d, Code
  1 12 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1 13    d.  For violations of sections 321.383, 321.384, 321.385,
  1 14 321.398, 321.402, 321.403, 321.404, 321.407, 321.409, 321.415,
  1 15 321.419, 321.420, 321.421, 321.423, and 321.433, the scheduled
  1 16 fine is twenty dollars.
  1 17                            EXPLANATION
  1 18    This bill prohibits the use of high intensity discharge
  1 19 headlamps on motor vehicles.  "High intensity discharge
  1 20 headlamps", also known as HID headlamps or xenon headlamps,
  1 21 are defined in the bill as headlamps that employ xenon gas to
  1 22 amplify light generated through an arc discharge.
  1 23    The bill provides that a person who violates the
  1 24 prohibition commits a simple misdemeanor punishable by a
  1 25 scheduled fine of $20.
  1 26 LSB 1533YH 82
  1 27 dea:nh/es/88