More than 50 state bills have been introduced in the past two years. Seven were enacted. Eighteen states – Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming – have adopted dark-sky legislation in recent years, according to USA Today.
The city of Davis is part of this trend. Davis’ Light Ordinance was proposed by then-mayor Julie Partansky and enacted in 1998 – Ordinance 1966 was established to minimize light pollution and allow people to see the night sky.”