Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Provides that the Alaska Legislature petitions the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to hold public hearings in the state on:
Changing time zones. Or
Placing the state within the “Pacific Standard Time Zone.”
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Urges Congress and the President to enact legislation that would allow a state to adopt DST year-round.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Urges Congress to repeal the federal law establishing the annual advancement of time known as “Daylight Saving Time” and leave the U.S. on standard time year-round.
Adopted
(3/9/2020)
Urges the federal government to allow states to switch to permanent DST.
Failed
Adjourned
Directs the Secretary of State to conduct a referendum asking voters to select one of the following at the next general election:
N. 1. The state shall continue to observe the current system of switching between standard time and DST twice a year.
N. 2. The state shall not observe DST.
N. 3. The state shall observe DST year-round if authorized by Congress.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Provides that the state shall observe the standard time of the United States.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Directs the state Secretary of State to conduct a referendum asking voters to select one of the following at the next general election:
N. 1. The state shall continue to observe the current system of switching between standard time and DST twice a year.
N. 2. The state shall observe standard time year-round.
N. 3. The state shall observe daylight saving time year-round if authorized by Congress.
State Affairs Committee
(Chair Lodge)
Provides that if the state of Washington establishes DST as the permanent time of the state, then those areas in the state of Idaho that are in the “Pacific Time Zone” shall also make DST their permanent time.
State Affairs Committee
(Chair Lodge)
States that areas of Idaho in the “Mountain Time Zone” will follow “Mountain Daylight Saving Time” year-round at such time Utah establishes DST as the permanent time of the state.
State Affairs Committee
(Chair Lodge)
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Specifies that such time shall be established, “notwithstanding how time is advanced pursuant to the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966.”
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Specifies that such time shall be established, “notwithstanding how time is advanced pursuant to the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966.”
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Urges Congress to enact permanent DST.
Establishes “Central Standard Time” as the official time year-round.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
State Government Committee
(Chair Smith)
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
State Government Committee
(Chair Smith)
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Establishes “Central Daylight Saving Time” as the official time year-round.
Directs the state Secretary of State to monitor the enactment of any federal law that permits the year-round observation of “Central DST.”
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Directs the state Secretary of Transportation to monitor federal legislation and to certify the date of any legislation authorizing states to observe DST on a year-round basis.
Urges Congress to allow states to permanently adopt DST.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Enacted
(6/9/2020)
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
This bill requires the State to observe so-called eastern daylight saving time year-round if the United States Congress authorizes states to do so.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Directs the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting apart the second week of March as “Massachusetts Sleep Awareness Week,” and the Sunday at the beginning of “Daylight Savings Time,” and recommend that such week be properly observed as a period of special attention to the problems of sleep deprivation and fatigue.
Directs the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting apart the second week of March as “Massachusetts Sleep Awareness Week,” and the Sunday at the beginning of “Daylight Savings Time,” and recommend that such week be properly observed as a period of special attention to the problems of sleep deprivation and fatigue.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Specifies that the standard time within the state shall be the time known and designated by federal law as “Atlantic Standard Time.”
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Directs the Governor to petition U.S. DOT to place the state within the “Eastern Standard Time Zone.”
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Urges the President and Congress of the United States to adopt the federal Sunshine Protection Act, which would make DST the permanently established time year-round.
Creates the “Mississippi Daylight Protection Act,” providing legislative intent that DST shall be the year-round standard time for the entire state, subject to congressional authorization.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Urges Congress to allow states to enact legislation that that would establish DST as the standard time throughout the calendar year.
Expresses the intent of the legislature that DST shall be the year-round standard time.
Establishes the “Daylight Saving as New Standard Time Pact,” consisting of Missouri and any other state seeking to permanently change DST to a new standard time.
Provides that in the year in which at least 20 states passed legislation, each state will switch clocks to DST for the last time and DST will be eliminated.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Specifies that the time known as “DST” will be the standard time.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization or an approval from U.S. DOT and if two (2) other states enact a single standard of time year-round.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Provides that the standing time of the state shall be considered “Eastern Daylight Time.”
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Provides that the standing time of the state shall be considered “Eastern Daylight Time.”
Creates the “Interstate-Interjurisdiction Mountain Time Zone Permanent Daylight Saving Time Compact (Compact).”
Outlines eligibility to join the Compact, including designating an official of notice in each member’s enacting statute.
Establishes “Mountain Daylight Saving Time” as the official time year-round.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Establishes “Atlantic Time” as the official time year-round.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Specifies that such time shall be established, “notwithstanding how time is advanced pursuant to the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966.”
Establishes a DST Task Force to study the effects of the state opting out of DST.
Establishes a DST Task Force to study the effects of the state opting out of DST.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Prohibits political subdivisions and state entities from using any other standard time.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Prohibits courts, public offices, state entities and political subdivisions from using any other standard time.
Urges Congress to enact the federal Sunshine Protection Act, which would permanently extend DST nationwide.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Establishes “Central Standard Time” as the official time year-round.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Establishes “Central Standard Time” as the official time year-round.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST.
Provides that the state elects to use “Central Standard Time” as the official time year-round.
Provides that the uniform legal standard time of the Commonwealth shall be “Atlantic Standard Time” and that DST shall not be used.
Urges Congress to extend DST throughout the entire year across the country.
Provides that the uniform standard time of the Commonwealth shall be “Eastern Standard Time” and that DST shall not be used as a standard of time.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
2020 S.C.
Act 113
(2/7/2020)
Provides that the South Carolina General Assembly intends for DST to be used as the year-round official time of the state, subject to congressional authorization.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round,
Directs the state’s attorney general to request a waiver from U.S. DOT. If such a waiver is denied, the law would become null and void ten days later.
Provides that the South Carolina General Assembly intends for DST to be used as the year-round official time of the state, subject to congressional authorization.
Refers a ballot question asking, “Do you favor the Attorney General of South Carolina requesting a waiver from the United States Secretary of Transportation in order to permit and approve South Carolina to observe daylight saving time year-round and no longer observe standard time?”
If approved by voters, directs the state Attorney General to request a waiver from U.S. DOT to permit the state to observe DST year-round.
Urges Congress to extend observation of DST on a year-round basis.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Directs the state Attorney General to request a waiver from U.S. DOT, providing, however, that the provisions nullify if the waiver is not approved.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to an authorizing federal law.
Abolishes DST in the state, effective Nov. 6, 2022.
Takes effect on the adoption of the constitutional amendment by the voters.
Enacted
(3/28/2020)
Subject to congressional authorization to allow states to observe DST year-round, places the state on “Mountain Daylight Time.”
Contains a contingent effective date by specifying that at least four other western states (e.g., Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington or Wyoming) must also enact similar legislation.
Creates an exemption from federal law regarding observation of DST, providing that the standard time shall be, “U.S. Standard Eastern Time.”
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Provides that the new time may be designated as, “U.S. Eastern Daylight Saving Time.”
Allows for the observation of year-round DST if federal law changes to allow the state to do so.
Failed-Adjourned
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization.
Requires a review of the potential impact the time zone has on communities to determine if the state should seek authorization from U.S. DOT to be in “Mountain Standard Time” on a year-round basis.
Provides that if Congress amends the law to allow states to observe DST year-round, it is the intent of the Washington Legislature that DST will be the official year-round standard of time.
Requires a review of the impacts the state time zone and DST have on commerce.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to both congressional authorization and approval by voters at the next general election.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round.
Establishes DST as the official time year-round, subject to congressional authorization and enactment of laws in at least four “western states” (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming) to place all or a portion of the state on year-round DST.
Exempts the state from “Mountain Standard Time.”
Requires the governor to inform the management council of the legislature regarding the date the bill takes effect.
