THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

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

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, JULY 18, 2011  

AN ACT

Providing for Pennsylvania-manufactured incandescent light

bulbs.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Short title.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the Pennsylvania

Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act.

Section 2.  Definitions.

The following words and phrases when used in this act shall

have the meanings given to them in this section unless the

context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Generic and insignificant parts."  Include, but are not

limited to, steel, glass, springs, screws, nuts, pins and

ceramics.

"Incandescent light bulb."  A light bulb containing a

filament or filaments that produce light when the filament or

filaments are heated due to electrical resistance.

Section 3.  Applicability of Federal law and regulation.

(a)  General rule.--An incandescent light bulb that is

manufactured commercially or privately in this Commonwealth from

basic materials that can be manufactured without the inclusion

of any significant parts imported from another state and is

offered for sale and sold for use only within this Commonwealth

is deemed to be in the stream of intrastate commerce, rather

than interstate commerce, and is not subject to Federal law or

regulation.

(b)  Generic and insignificant parts.--The incorporation of

generic and insignificant parts imported from another state in

an incandescent light bulb that is manufactured and sold in this

Commonwealth under subsection (a) which have other manufacturing

or consumer product applications does not bring an incandescent

light bulb into interstate commerce and does not subject it to

Federal law or regulation.

(c)  Basic materials.--Basic materials, such as unmachined

and unshaped steel and glass, imported from another state that

are to be altered for incorporation into an incandescent light

bulb are deemed to be an insignificant part of the bulb under

subsection (b) prior to their alteration and after their

incorporation into the bulb. If these basic materials are

otherwise manufactured, offered for sale and sold in accordance

with subsection (a), they are not in interstate commerce and not

subject to Federal law or regulation under subsection (b).

Section 4.  Indication of manufacture.

An incandescent light bulb manufactured, offered for sale or

sold in this Commonwealth under this act must have the words

"Made in Pennsylvania" clearly stamped, engraved or otherwise

clearly indicated on a central part of the bulb.

Section 5.  Applicability.

This act applies to incandescent light bulbs that are

manufactured on or after the effective date of this act.

Section 6.  Effective date.

This act shall take effect immediately.