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The Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act enacted year-round daylight saving time for a two-year experiment from January 6, 1974, to April 7, 1975, but Congress later ended the experiment early on October 27, 1974, and did not make it permanent [5] due to unfavorable public opinion, especially regarding concerns about children ...
Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer, said Senate Bill 1548 would make Pacific Standard Time year-round, abandoning effort to make daylight saving time permanent.
Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act; Long title: An Act to provide for daylight saving time on a year-round basis for a two-year trial period, and to require the Federal Communications Commission to permit certain daytime broadcast stations to operate before local sunrise. Enacted by: the 93rd United States Congress ...
US senators make new push to make daylight saving time permanent
The bill passed, [40] and was followed by proposed 2021 ballot initiative 1803, "Abolish Daylight Savings Time in Washington state" to petition the U.S. Congress to authorize the change. [41] Tennessee and Oregon also passed bills in 2019 for year-round DST, [ 42 ] [ 43 ] and legislative houses in Alabama and Arkansas also approved resolutions ...
The bill hasn't seen any movement since 2023, so it would need to be re-introduced to Congress. It isn't just the federal government that has been mulling a change.
Tennessee and Oregon also passed bills in 2019 for year-round DST. [61] [62] In 2021, the Georgia General Assembly passed Senate Bill 100 providing for year-round daylight saving time if the United States Congress amends 15 U.S.C. Section 260a to authorize states to observe daylight saving time year round. [63]
Daylight saving time is going to end soon, meaning soon it will start to get dark at what many have argued is an inconveniently early time.. In the fall, clocks "fall back" an hour as a holdover ...