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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.
Assembly Bill No. 1776 would repeal daylight saving time in California, requiring the state to observe year-round standard time. The proposal would require passage by a two-thirds vote.
Some states are trying end time changes and instead adopt permanent daylight saving time, but doing so requires Congress approval. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, over ...
In 2019, the Oregon Senate passed a bill that would put the state (except Malheur County) on year-round Daylight saving time, effectively moving Oregon full time to Mountain Standard Time (UTC −7). The bill has not yet been considered by the Oregon House of Representatives.
About 43% want year-round standard time, 32% want permanent daylight saving time and 25% want to stick with the status quo, an October 2021 Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research ...
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]
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.