[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 397 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 397

  To provide that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy 
   efficient lighting in public buildings shall require a hospital, 
  school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to 
  install or use energy efficient lighting if that lighting contains 
                                mercury.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 17, 2011

    Mr. Enzi (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Risch) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy 
   efficient lighting in public buildings shall require a hospital, 
  school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to 
  install or use energy efficient lighting if that lighting contains 
                                mercury.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MERCURY-CONTAINING LIGHTING.

    (a) Amendment.--Title III of the Energy Independence and Security 
Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-140) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``SEC. 326. MERCURY-CONTAINING LIGHTING.

    ``Notwithstanding sections 321 through 325, and the amendments made 
by those sections, no Federal or State requirement to increase energy 
efficient lighting in public buildings shall require a hospital, 
school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to 
install or use energy efficient lighting if that lighting contains 
mercury.''.
    (b) Table of Contents Amendment.--The table of contents of the 
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-140; 121 
Stat. 1493) is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to 
title III the following new item:

``Sec. 326. Mercury-containing lighting.''.
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