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Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
To make daylight saving time permanent, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would make daylight saving time permanent across the United States by repealing the federal provision that currently allows states to opt out of daylight saving time. The bill amends the Calder Act to advance all time zones by one hour, effectively implementing permanent daylight saving time nationwide. States that have previously exempted themselves from daylight saving time would be given the option to either adopt the new permanent daylight time or maintain their prior standard time practices. The bill would eliminate the current practice of switching between standard time and daylight saving time twice per year.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] (R-FL)
18 cosponsors
- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN)
- Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL] (R-AL)
- Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN] (R-TN)
- Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] (D-NM)
- Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] (R-MS)
- Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] (R-OK)
- Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] (R-WY)
- Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] (D-MA)
- Sen. Moody, Ashley [R-FL] (R-FL)
- Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] (D-WA)
- Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] (D-CA)
- Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY] (R-KY)
- Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] (D-HI)
- Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC] (R-SC)
- Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] (D-MN)
- Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL] (R-AL)
- Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] (D-RI)
- Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] (D-OR)
Actions (2)
- Jan 7, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. · senate
- Jan 7, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 7, 2025
Mr. Scott of Florida (for himself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Markey, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Paul, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Schatz, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, and Ms. Smith) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To make daylight saving time permanent, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Sunshine Protection Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. MAKING DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME PERMANENT.
(a) Repeal of Temporary Period for Daylight Saving Time.—Section 3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a) is hereby repealed.
(b) Advancement of Standard Time.—
(1) In general.—The second sentence of subsection (a) of section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918 (commonly known as the “Calder Act”) (15 U.S.C. 261), is amended—
(A) by striking “4 hours” and inserting “3 hours”;
(B) by striking “5 hours” and inserting “4 hours”;
(C) by striking “6 hours” and inserting “5 hours”;
(D) by striking “7 hours” and inserting “6 hours”;
(E) by striking “8 hours” and inserting “by 7 hours”;
(F) by striking “9 hours” and inserting “8 hours”;
(G) by striking “10 hours;” and inserting “9 hours;”;
(H) by striking “11 hours” and inserting “10 hours”; and
(I) by striking “10 hours.” and inserting “11 hours.”.
(2) State exemption.—Such section is further amended by—
(A) redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and
(B) inserting after subsection (a) the following:
“(b) Standard Time for Certain States and Areas.—The standard time for a State that has exempted itself from the provisions of section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a(a)), as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, pursuant to such section or an area of a State that has exempted such area from such provisions pursuant to such section shall be, as such State considers appropriate—
“(1) the standard time for such State or area, as the case may be, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section; or
“(2) the standard time for such State or area, as the case may be, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section as it was in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025.”.
(3) Conforming amendment.—Such section is further amended, in the second sentence, by striking “Except as provided in section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), the” and inserting “Except as provided in subsection (b),”. <all>
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