House File 384 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  WILLEMS, KAUFMANN, REICHERT,
                                           and JACOBY


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act prohibiting the use of lead wheel weights in motor
  2    vehicles and providing an effective date.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1962HH 83
  5 tm/nh/8

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  321.447  LEAD WHEEL WEIGHTS.
  1  2    1.  A person shall not offer for sale in this state a motor
  1  3 vehicle equipped with lead wheel weights.
  1  4    2.  In the servicing, repair, or maintenance of a motor
  1  5 vehicle, lead wheel weights shall not be installed.
  1  6    3.  In the servicing, repair, or maintenance of a motor
  1  7 vehicle, lead wheel weights shall be replaced with wheel
  1  8 weights composed of materials other than lead.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect July 1,
  1 10 2010.
  1 11                           EXPLANATION
  1 12    This bill prohibits the sale in this state a motor vehicle
  1 13 equipped with lead wheel weights.  During the servicing,
  1 14 repair, or maintenance of a motor vehicle, the bill prohibits
  1 15 the installation of wheel weights and requires such wheel
  1 16 weights to be replaced with wheel weights composed of
  1 17 materials other than lead.
  1 18    The bill takes effect July 1, 2010.
  1 19 LSB 1962HH 83
  1 20 tm/nh/8.1