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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY GABLER, BAKER, BLOOM, CAUSER, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, DENLINGER, FABRIZIO, GEIST, GILLEN, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GROVE, HENNESSEY, HESS, HORNAMAN, KAUFFMAN, KOTIK, LAWRENCE, MALONEY, MILLARD, MOUL, MURT, OBERLANDER, PICKETT, RAPP, ROAE, SACCONE, SAYLOR, SIMMONS, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TOOHIL AND COX, JULY 18, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, JULY 18, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Providing for Pennsylvania-manufactured incandescent light |
2 | bulbs. |
3 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
4 | hereby enacts as follows: |
5 | Section 1. Short title. |
6 | This act shall be known and may be cited as the Pennsylvania |
7 | Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act. |
8 | Section 2. Definitions. |
9 | The following words and phrases when used in this act shall |
10 | have the meanings given to them in this section unless the |
11 | context clearly indicates otherwise: |
12 | "Generic and insignificant parts." Include, but are not |
13 | limited to, steel, glass, springs, screws, nuts, pins and |
14 | ceramics. |
15 | "Incandescent light bulb." A light bulb containing a |
16 | filament or filaments that produce light when the filament or |
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1 | filaments are heated due to electrical resistance. |
2 | Section 3. Applicability of Federal law and regulation. |
3 | (a) General rule.--An incandescent light bulb that is |
4 | manufactured commercially or privately in this Commonwealth from |
5 | basic materials that can be manufactured without the inclusion |
6 | of any significant parts imported from another state and is |
7 | offered for sale and sold for use only within this Commonwealth |
8 | is deemed to be in the stream of intrastate commerce, rather |
9 | than interstate commerce, and is not subject to Federal law or |
10 | regulation. |
11 | (b) Generic and insignificant parts.--The incorporation of |
12 | generic and insignificant parts imported from another state in |
13 | an incandescent light bulb that is manufactured and sold in this |
14 | Commonwealth under subsection (a) which have other manufacturing |
15 | or consumer product applications does not bring an incandescent |
16 | light bulb into interstate commerce and does not subject it to |
17 | Federal law or regulation. |
18 | (c) Basic materials.--Basic materials, such as unmachined |
19 | and unshaped steel and glass, imported from another state that |
20 | are to be altered for incorporation into an incandescent light |
21 | bulb are deemed to be an insignificant part of the bulb under |
22 | subsection (b) prior to their alteration and after their |
23 | incorporation into the bulb. If these basic materials are |
24 | otherwise manufactured, offered for sale and sold in accordance |
25 | with subsection (a), they are not in interstate commerce and not |
26 | subject to Federal law or regulation under subsection (b). |
27 | Section 4. Indication of manufacture. |
28 | An incandescent light bulb manufactured, offered for sale or |
29 | sold in this Commonwealth under this act must have the words |
30 | "Made in Pennsylvania" clearly stamped, engraved or otherwise |
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1 | clearly indicated on a central part of the bulb. |
2 | Section 5. Applicability. |
3 | This act applies to incandescent light bulbs that are |
4 | manufactured on or after the effective date of this act. |
5 | Section 6. Effective date. |
6 | This act shall take effect immediately. |
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