HOUSE BILL No. 5316

 

October 16, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Miller, Accavitti, Jackson, Hansen, LaJoy, Gonzales, Polidori, Bieda, Dean, Hopgood, Warren, Meisner, Clack, Scott, Leland, Hammon, Vagnozzi, Lemmons and Byrnes and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

     A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled

 

"The management and budget act,"

 

by amending section 241b (MCL 18.1241b), as added by 1995 PA 38.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 241b. (1) The department shall consider the energy

 

efficiency of all materials used in the construction, alteration,

 

repair, or rebuilding of a building or facility owned or operated

 

by this state.

 

     (2) The department shall issue directives to require all

 

buildings and facilities owned or operated by this state to use

 

high-efficiency lightbulbs when replacing an existing lightbulb or

 

installing a new lightbulb.

 

     (3) The department shall issue directives to require all

 

buildings and facilities owned or operated by this state to use


 

electronic ballasts when replacing an existing magnetic ballast or

 

when an electronic ballast is needed to support a new high-

 

efficiency lightbulb.

 

     (4) As used in this section, "high-efficiency lightbulb" means

 

a bulb with a luminous efficacy of at least 50 lumens per watt.