During the 2007-08 session of the Massachusetts State Legislature, there were two bills that pertained to outdoor-lighting regulation.

House Bill 808

Sponsored by Rep. James J. Marzilli Jr., this bill was titled "An Act To Limit Outdoor Night Lighting, Conserve Energy, and Reduce Light Pollution." It proposed that no state funds be used to install or replace any permanent outdoor lighting fixture (lamp output of 1800 lumens or greater) unless the luminaire is a full-cutoff design. Note that this requirement would apply to any project using state funds: school renovations, improvements to street intersections, and so forth. This bill had the same wording as the one filed during the past two sessions. It was filed in January 2007, before the IESNA did away with "full cutoff" terminology in its new luminaire-classification system.

On November 18, 2007, a public hearing for HB 808 was held by the House Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, and NELPAG presented an oral statement in support of it. The bill has not yet been reported out by the committee.

House Bill 3337

A new bill, also submitted by Marzilli, had the sweeping title of "An Act To Promote Energy, Climate and Economic Security." Part of that the bill called on Mass Highways to complete an end-to-end assessment to justify the roadway lighting in place and to make suggests for improving it. A public hearing before the House Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy was held on May 1, 2007.

Although he has since resigned from the legislature, Marzilli proposed statewide outdoor-lighting legislation in every legislative session since 1992. He came closest to getting a version enacted in the summer of 2003, when it was appended to a state transportation bill. Inexplicably, the outdoor-lighting bill was somehow removed from the conference-committee markup that was approved by the House and Senate.