SF 2134 (LSB 6018XS (3) 85)

SENATE FILE 2134

BY  HOGG

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to utilization of energy efficient forms of lighting with regard to city and county exterior flood lighting and certain parking facility lighting.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  331.363  Energy-efficient lighting required.

   The energy-efficient lighting replacement and utilization requirements and the dates applicable for their utilization specified in section 476.62 shall be applicable to any county-owned exterior flood lighting, including but not limited to street and security lighting not otherwise owned by or provided by a public utility. The requirements and the dates applicable for their utilization shall be equally applicable to privately owned parking facilities located within a county outside the limits of a city if such parking facilities contain sixteen or more parking spaces or units. For the purposes of this section, “parking facilities” means the same as defined in section 384.37.
    Sec. 2.  Section 364.23, Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   364.23  Energy-efficient lighting required.
   1.  All Beginning January 1, 2015, all city-owned exterior flood lighting, including but not limited to street and security lighting but not including era or period lighting which has a minimum efficiency rating of fifty-eight lumens per watt and not including stadium or ball park lighting, shall be replaced, when worn-out, exclusively with high pressure sodium light-emitting diode lighting or lighting with equivalent or better energy efficiency as approved in rules adopted by the utilities board within the utilities division of the department of commerce.  By January 1, 2020, all city-owned exterior flood lighting shall utilize light-emitting diode lighting or lighting with equivalent or better energy efficiency as approved in rules adopted by the utilities board within the utilities division of the department of commerce. In lieu of the requirements established for replacement lighting under this section, stadium or ball park lighting shall be replaced, when worn-out, with the most energy-efficient lighting available at the time of replacement which may include metal halide, high-pressure sodium, light-emitting diode, or other light sources which may be developed.
   2.  The lighting replacement and utilization requirements specified in subsection 1, and the dates applicable for their utilization, shall be equally applicable to privately owned parking facilities containing sixteen or more parking spaces or units. For the purposes of this subsection, “parking facilities” means the same as defined in section 384.37.
    Sec. 3.  Section 476.62, Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   476.62  Energy-efficient lighting required.

   All Beginning January 1, 2015, all public utility-owned exterior flood lighting, including but not limited to street and security lighting, shall be replaced when worn-out exclusively with high pressure sodium light-emitting diode lighting or lighting with equivalent or better energy efficiency as approved in rules adopted by the board.  By January 1, 2020, all public utility-owned exterior flood lighting shall utilize light-emitting diode lighting or lighting with equivalent or better energy efficiency as approved in rules adopted by the board.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill requires the utilization of energy efficient forms of lighting with regard to exterior flood lighting and designated parking facility lighting.
   Currently, cities and public utilities are required to replace exterior flood lighting, including but not limited to street and security lighting, with high pressure sodium lighting or lighting with equivalent or better energy efficiency as approved in rules adopted by the Iowa utilities board. The bill changes this requirement to refer to replacement with light-emitting diode lighting. Such replacement would be applicable beginning January 1, 2015, with the requirement that by January 1, 2020, all city-owned or public utility-owned flood lighting will utilize light-emitting diode lighting or lighting with equivalent or better energy efficiency as approved in rules adopted by the Iowa utilities board.
   Additionally, the bill extends the replacement and utilization lighting requirements, and the dates applicable for their utilization, to privately owned parking facilities located within a city or a county if the parking facilities contain 16 or more parking spaces or units. The bill references a definition of “parking facility” contained in Code section 384.37 as meaning parking lots or other off-street areas for the parking of vehicles, including areas below or above the surface of streets.