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The Sunshine Protection Act is a proposed United States federal law that would make U.S. daylight saving time permanent, meaning the time would no longer change twice per year. [1][2] The bill has been proposed during several sessions of Congress. In 2022, the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent, although several senators stated later ...
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has opposed the Sunshine Protection Act and called instead for permanent standard time, a position supported by the American College of Chest Physicians and the World Sleep Society, among others. [49] On January 3, 2023, the 117th Congress ended without the House voting on the Sunshine Protection Act. [50]
In 2018, Sen. Marco Rubio introduced the Sunshine Protection Act. If passed, daylight saving time would be permanent in the U.S., meaning people would not be forced to change their clocks back one ...
t. e. The Government in the Sunshine Act (Pub. L. 94–409, 90 Stat. 1241, enacted September 13, 1976, 5 U.S.C. § 552b) is a U.S. law passed in 1976 that affects the operations of the federal government, Congress, federal commissions, and other legally constituted federal bodies. It is one of a number of Freedom of Information Acts, intended ...
The Sunshine Protection Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent on March 15, 2022. The bill, introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio, would eliminate the changing of clocks to standard time for the ...
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 ...
The Sunshine Protection Act could make daylight saving time permanent. Following debates for years, the Senate finally voted to end the regular changing of clocks in March 2022.
Daylight saving time in the Americas is the arrangement in the Americas by which clocks are advanced by one hour in spring and moved back in autumn, to make the most of seasonal daylight. The practice is widespread in North America, with most of Canada and the United States participating, but much less so in Central and South America.