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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.
In 2019, the Washington State Legislature passed Substitute House Bill 1196, [39] which would establish year-round observation of daylight saving time contingent on the United States Congress amending federal law to authorize states to observe daylight saving time year-round. The bill passed, [40] and was followed by proposed 2021 ballot ...
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.
If the bill had passed, daylight savings time would have become permanent on Nov. 5, 2023—meaning that the clocks would remain at the same time they shifted to back on March 12, 2023, without ...
In 2022, the Senate passed a bill called the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent. The bill was backed by 17 bipartisan cosponsors, including Sen. Marco Rubio ...
The push to stop changing clocks was put before Congress in the last couple of years, when the U.S. Senate unanimously approved the Sunshine Protection Act in 2022, a bill to make daylight saving ...
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]