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Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer, said Senate Bill 1548 would make Pacific Standard Time year-round, abandoning effort to make daylight saving time permanent.
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 that would make daylight ...
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 ...
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]
Congress decided to make daylight saving time permanent for two years from 1973 to 1975, extending the hours of daily sunlight year-round to conserve energy during the oil embargo crisis. However ...
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.
The nation springs forward to daylight saving next on March 9, 2025, ushering in spring and summer with 11 to 15 hours of daily sunshine that can often start between 5:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.