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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 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 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 ...
D aylight Saving Time has been legally enforced in the U.S. on-and-off since 1918, when congress passed the Standard Time Act. The law set the boundaries for the various time zones in the U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks in a move promoted ...
The Sunshine Protection Act, which would affect daylight saving time, passed the Senate by unanimous consent in March 2022. ... That bill has been stalled, though. It did not pass the U.S. House ...
In 2019, the Washington State Legislature passed Substitute House Bill 1196, [56] 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. [57] Tennessee and Oregon also passed bills in 2019 for year-round ...
In 2022, the U.S. Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which proposed year-round daylight saving time. However, the bill has yet to be approved by the House of Representatives, leaving the ...